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Merrillville council to draft complaint over repeated NIPSCO outages and unaddressed streetlight outages
Summary
Council members reported widespread, unresolved streetlight and delayed service issues with NIPSCO and directed staff to prepare a letter for the Office of Utility Consumer Counselor to press the regulated utility for improved responsiveness.
Council members raised persistent problems with NIPSCO service — including street lights remaining out for weeks and delayed new-service hookups for new construction — and asked town staff to take the matter to the state-level consumer advocate.
Multiple council members described repeated reports and long waits for repairs. Councilor Pettit and others said new homes and subdivisions were…
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