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Sewer Rate Increase Expected Next Year

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EWSU leader says he's working on a 3-year plan as construction costs rise

As construction prices increase so do sewer rates. WNIN’s John Gibson explains:

Evansville Water and Sewer Executive Director Lane Young went before the city council Monday night to talk about the Wansford Lift Station project near the county jail.

He told councilors that the cost of the project has jumped from $44 million to $68 million.

Young estimates it will mean a less-than-a-dollar increase on sewer bills next year:

"It's about 90 cents on a monthly bill if you're a 4000-gallon per month kind of...which is sort of the average residential user."

But Young notes the major sewer upgrade mandated by the federal government has more than doubled in cost:

"I can tell you all that the $729 million that we had negotiated is roughly around, just shy of $2 billion. So we have to renegotiate that and we are renegotiating that."

Young says he’s working on a three-year plan to determine how best to “get through” the rising costs.