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The MSD Board
approved a plan to build 42 miles of sewer throughout southwest
Jefferson County. The plan connects the remaining neighborhoods in
the Mill Creek area to the MSD wastewater collection and treatment
system. MSD's Mill Creek area expansion began in 1985 and has
provided sanitary sewer service to 25,000 additional properties
that were previously served by septic tanks.
The expansion
plan approved by MSD's board includes 18 neighborhoods and 3,482
new customers and were grouped under a single guaranteed maximum
assessment ($6,149 per property). This made it possible to
streamline administrative processes and will save time in the
bidding process. By combining the neighborhoods, one of which is
in the Pond Creek watershed, construction cost is expected to be
less than $26 million. If they had not been combined, estimates of
the 18 projects would have been over $35 million and taken years
to complete.
Extending
sewers will remove thousands of septic systems and many package
wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations which have
contributed to stream and river pollution.
Property
owners agreed with the plan by voting in favor of sewers by a 68
percent margin. Public meetings for property owners in the 18
neighborhoods were held in a multi-day open-house format.
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