Should Lakewood Merge with NEORSD and save $150 million?
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2019 6:06 am
The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) serves one million people and must spend $3 billion to comply with EPA rules. That's $3,000 per person.
The Lakewood sewer department serves 50,000 people and must spend $300 million to comply with EPA rules. That's $6,000 per person.
Why not join NEORSD save $150 million?
The Lakewood Observer is the perfect place for candidates to discuss this issue and others. Where are they?
Mayor Summers and his supporters were eager to regionalize Lakewood's assets and yet seem afraid to regionalize our liabilities. Shouldn't regionalization work both ways?
It's clever politics to concentrate on ideas that are safe and uncontroversial but the reason those ideas are safe and uncontroversial is that they are unimportant.
The Lakewood sewer department serves 50,000 people and must spend $300 million to comply with EPA rules. That's $6,000 per person.
Why not join NEORSD save $150 million?
The Lakewood Observer is the perfect place for candidates to discuss this issue and others. Where are they?
Mayor Summers and his supporters were eager to regionalize Lakewood's assets and yet seem afraid to regionalize our liabilities. Shouldn't regionalization work both ways?
It's clever politics to concentrate on ideas that are safe and uncontroversial but the reason those ideas are safe and uncontroversial is that they are unimportant.