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Article: Delay in sewer repairs called risky to health Sewerage district criticizes Brookfield mayor's request for more study
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1997
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Officials of suburbs outside Milwaukee County could jeopardize
public health and boost costs by attempting to delay rebuilding 29
miles of crumbling brick and clay sewers, Milwaukee Metropolitan
Sewerage District officials said Thursday.
"The cost of delay is tremendous," said the district's executive
director, Anne Spray Kinney, at a noon news conference. "Emergency
repairs cost 10 times the amount of planned rehabilitation."
But Brookfield Mayor Kathryn Bloomberg says the sewerage district
is overreacting to her request to include the costly project in an
ongoing study of whether the regional system will need to build
additional storage and treatment facilities before 2010.