Guest column: Recommends more negotiations with EPA, DOE on sewer system upgrade
Note: This is a copy of a letter sent to Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan and Oak Ridge City Council members, among others. Dear Mayor Beehan, Next Monday evening you will begin considering a major increase...
View ArticleGuest column: The City Council should negotiate with EPA
At its next meeting, the Oak Ridge City Council will consider whether to attempt to negotiate a better deal with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the sewer upgrades or not. About three and a...
View ArticleCouncil to consider utility rate increases, sewer tanks, new fire trucks
Oak Ridge officials are considering utility rate increases that could cost many residents another $6.87 per month, and they have also proposed building three large sewer system holding tanks, including...
View ArticleCouncil approves water, sewer rate increases
There was much opposition online, and in phone calls to city hall, but few public objections to back-to-back utility rate increases at a Monday night Oak Ridge City Council meeting. The Council voted...
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