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Council asks state regulator to clarify sewer-repair responsibility after constituent complaints
Summary
Councilman Burke presented a resolution urging the Louisiana Public Service Commission to reconsider a tariff change that may shift sewer-repair responsibility to homeowners; Councilman Jeff Corbin successfully proposed an amendment defining the point of demarcation at the parish right-of-way, and the amended resolution passed unanimously.
Councilman Burke introduced a resolution asking the Louisiana Public Service Commission to consider the "disproportionate economic burden placed upon utility customers with older properties" when utilities seek rate increases and to revisit tariff language that may make homeowners responsible for sewer repairs to the sewer main.
Burke described a case in which a constituent’s sewage connection and the allocation of repair responsibility were affected by a tariff change,…
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