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Officials explain Jordan Road connection fees, water-plant upgrade and July 4 outage
Summary
An official explained that Jordan Road tap fees (about $4,200 for a standard residential meter) fund a long-term sinking fund for water infrastructure; a July 4 outage was blamed on a blown fuse and transient grid flicker that briefly shut pumps down and required vendor repairs.
An official who was addressed in the meeting as "Mister Hayman" briefed the council on water-system matters and a recent outage.
He explained that the Jordan Road water project was funded by Miami Township trustees and that water-connection (tap) fees are not intended to pay for construction of a project but to seed a sinking fund for future infrastructure repairs. "The connection fee varies based off the size of the tap," he said, adding that a 5/8-inch residential meter fee was "around $4,200" at present and that larger fire-protection taps can require much higher fees (examples included a $32,000 tap for a 6-inch main).
The official described a July 4 water outage that stemmed from a blown fuse after a short power-grid flicker caused high-service and well pumps to drop offline; the generator did not run because the flicker was too brief to trigger it, and vendors were called to replace the fuse on the holiday. He said the village is engineering a water-plant renovation expected to exceed $2 million and that annual gross revenue from water rates is about $1.4 million, underscoring the purpose of maintaining a connection-fee sinking fund to avoid steep rate spikes.
Councilors asked for clarification on typical connection-fee amounts and the official provided scale examples and invited residents to follow up with questions.
