posted by Joe Polk at 2:17 PM /
NOTE: Mt. Lebanon is one of 83 communities served by Alcosan, so this possible rate increase will affect us.
An audit of the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority released this morning estimates the authority might need as much as $21 billion to comply with a federal order to upgrade its storm water and sewer management system.
Allegheny County Controller Michael Patrick Flaherty and city of Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb said their review of Alcosan -- from January 2007 to July 2008 -- shows the authority will face a huge funding hurdle in the next 15 to 20 years.
"We want people to be aware of this now," said Mr. Lamb. He and Mr. Flaherty revealed that the authority's funding troubles may lead to as much as a $3,104 annual rate increase for ratepayers in the Alcosan system if the authority doesn't receive any outside funding to help pay for its system-wide upgrade, slated to start in about five years.
An audit of the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority released this morning estimates the authority might need as much as $21 billion to comply with a federal order to upgrade its storm water and sewer management system.
Allegheny County Controller Michael Patrick Flaherty and city of Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb said their review of Alcosan -- from January 2007 to July 2008 -- shows the authority will face a huge funding hurdle in the next 15 to 20 years.
"We want people to be aware of this now," said Mr. Lamb. He and Mr. Flaherty revealed that the authority's funding troubles may lead to as much as a $3,104 annual rate increase for ratepayers in the Alcosan system if the authority doesn't receive any outside funding to help pay for its system-wide upgrade, slated to start in about five years.
Labels: alcosan, consent decree, sewer management, storm water management
3 Comments:
This has the potential to be an absolute killer of economic growth and development in Allegheny County for years to come.
This is an absolute disgrace ! Mt. Lebanon became fully aware of its role and share of the cost of Federal compliance years ago, when as I recall the County's compliance cost was to be some $3 billion or so and Mt. Lebanon was to be around $30 million. Mt. Lebanon water consumers,including government and all tax exempts, have been paying increased compliance surcharges in our monthly payments to PAWC for years already to fund remediation required for our portion of the problem, and will continue to do so for several more years I believe.
Why are we now finding the County tab has grown to $21 billion and work has not even really been initiated ? Is this really the case ? Heads should roll if it is !
It's only a matter of time before the "Build Our Sewers Now" group comes out of the woodwork.
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