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Article: `Sewer wars' go before PSC again FLOW communities claim sewerage district lied to them on taxes in 1980
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 7, 1996
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Nearly $153 million in the regional "sewer wars" dispute hangs in
the balance as the state Public Service Commission on Monday opens
three weeks of hearings into allegations that the Milwaukee
Metropolitan Sewerage District lied to several suburbs.
The central issue before the commission is whether the regional
sewerage district in 1980 had deceived six communities outside of
Milwaukee County about how they would be charged for their share of
facility construction costs in a $2.9 billion expansion program that
is now complete.
In a complaint to the PSC, the suburban group known as FLOW, or
Fair Liquidation of Waste, said that its member communities in 1980
were not told the district planned ...