As reported in the Antigo Daily Journal, the Antigo Common Council approved sewer rate increases, that will cost the average homeowner an additional $7 per year. Money will be budgeted at $550,000 annually for 3 years for repairs needed.
There was an interesting “Letter to the Editor” regarding this issue, but, it is not yet posted on the Antigo Journal website. The subject of that letter was something about the Council voting to donate $35,000 to a local organization, after approving the sewer rate increase. This Letter to the Editor was in the Antigo Journal on Tuesday, October 7, on page 4. We will keep our eye out for this letter to be posted on the internet and add it later to this article.
You can read the Antigo Journal article HERE.
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According to the last common council meeting, the increase only amounts to .55 cents per each resident. I don’t have any more money than the next guy in this town but don’t really think that is a significant amount.
I agree with Sherry. The editorial writer was so off the mark because the writer was too lazy to get the facts it was laughable. I will gladly pay the $7.00 a year to get sanitary sewers repaired in our city and not have a basement full of crap….literally. Any arguers out there check your homeowners insurance because coverage for sewer back-up from a main in the street is not covered with the typical homeowners policy and is specially purchased…and not cheap. Same with coverage for water mains flooding your basement. Take care of your infrastructure, sewers, (both storm and sanitary), water, streets and sidewalks with well aimed tax dollars and it will be cheaper than any insurance you could ever buy.
We are suppose to be living in an area where inflation does not exist. (according to what the government tells us.) Average wage in Langlade County went down, unemployment up. Social Security will not see a cost of living increase.. I don’t support this.. If anything the prices should be going down with deflation. When people several hundred people start illegally digging wells in their basement to save $20.00 a month such as what happened when several other communities added charges like this.. The revenue lost will exceed the amount gained.
. Not only did people install basement wells.. But many people legally recycled water.. Such as take water from the bath tub, clothes washer, dishwasher, and use it to flush the toilet.. Or collect rainwater to wash clothes and flush the toilets.. that’s $30 or $40 a month less right there. Under Federal law a city can’t have local ordinances to prevent water conservation/recycling. Not that expensive.. Usually within 6 months the costs will pay for itself. One or two hundred people doing this would totally disrupt that $7.00 fee and make it a loss for the city.