SALISBURY – The Wicomico County Council accepted funding this month to construct a clean water supply for Morris Mill Road area residents coping with contaminated water for some time.
Last Tuesday morning, the Wicomico County Council voted to approve a resolution authorizing County Executive Rick Pollitt to accept and execute a $1.5 million grant award, and a low interest loan in the amount of $900,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-Rural Development, Water and Environmental Programs (WEP).
According to the resolution, the WEP through the USDA-Rural Development offers loans, grants and loan guarantees to public bodies to assist rural communities with their water, wastewater, and solid waste problems.
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Fishy how this suddenly appears for the Morris Mill area.
ReplyDeleteDid the residents vote?
Now everyone will be sacked with a water/sewer bill when most of them do not need it.
If I were those Wicomico residents being served, I wouldn't count my chickens before they hatch. With Pollitt in office they had better watch their Urban Services fees because they to will soon find themselves out on the street.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the County should buy into a partnership with the City on the Waste Water Treatment Plant so they can provide services to places like Nithsdale and so forth. Just a thought.
ReplyDeleteJoe - that is a great idea as everyone knows that the water quality in Nithsdale is bad. And now that that some of their septics are failing - it is not all that far to extend the service.
ReplyDeleteQuestions:
ReplyDelete#1 How much will it cost property owners to tie in to the new system?
#2 How much will the user fees be?
#3 Increased tax assessment?
#4 Will all property owners have to tie in? Or just those affected?
#5 And the source of the contamination is ....where? And the party who created the contamination?
tc flippo
Joe,
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately partnerships don't work between county and city water systems (for a myriad of reasons, but mostly focusing on the rights that local governments are entitled to). Looks at Secretary/E. New Market water as an example of how water system partnerships can be bad.
My car was broken into in Nithsdale.A few others had their widshields smashed.Nothing new for that area,but I have really good water.
ReplyDeleteLooks at Secretary/E. New Market water as an example of how water system partnerships can be bad.
ReplyDeleteFebruary 28, 2014 at 2:17 PM
example?