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X-Original-Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:07:52 -0600
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:07:52 -0600
At one point Minneapolis
even paid for extending the water mains into suburban areas. I don't
know if that's still true or not.
WizardMarks, Central
Yes, it's still true. Mpls pays the largest share into the Met
Council funds, which are still being used to pay for extending water &
sewer into outlying farmland so the suburbs can expand yet further. Then
once they've developed, they demand gas tax money to pay for new roads
extending our further.
Even more: they have recently taken official notice that combined
sewer & street drainage piping is a bad thing, and causes overflows at
the sewage treatment plants when there are sudden heavy rainstorms, thus
sending untreated sewage into the river. They finally officially decided
this is a bad thing. So now the Met Council is planning to work with
cities to dig up and separate these drainage systems, adding Met Council
money to help the cities pay for this very expensive work. But
Minneapolis as been working on this for many years, and is nearly done
with it within Minneapolis -- all paid for with Minneapolis funds. Now
that it's being done in the suburbs, it's suddenly a "metro-wide problem"
that has to be paid for by all of us. Anybody want to bet on the chances
of Minneapolis getting reimbursed by the Met Council for the money it's
already spent on doing this?
Tim Bonham, Ward 12, Standish-Ericsson
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