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Muncie public commenter warns of river trash and rising sewer costs, questions developer hookups

Board of Sanitary Commissioners · January 8, 2026
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At the Jan. 7 Board of Sanitary Commissioners meeting, Rick Yenser urged officials to keep the river clean and questioned whether sewer hookups for a developer should be paid by sanitary customers, also claiming the storm/sanitary separation project has led to roughly $150 million in debt (a claim he attributed to lingering project costs).

Rick Yenser, a local writer, used the public-comment portion of the Board of Sanitary Commissioners' Jan. 7 meeting to urge the board to "keep the river clean and pick up trash" and to raise concerns about sewer costs. "I heard some noise the other day about whether this is a sanitary job to hook up the apartment building for the developer, which we, the taxpayers, then would have…

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