  Zug Member Username: Zug Post Number: 155 Registered: 01-2004 |
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20061212/M ETRO/612120313 Here we go again. Isn't it amazing that the title of the article is "Water rates jump 4.7% for suburbs" and when you read you find out that Detroit's hike is 8.5%. I also didn't read anything about Detroiters suffering by paying more...why only give the suburban impact? I can understand people resenting tax increases, but is an extra 53 cents a month really going to put the average suburbanite in debt? If this has such an earth shaking impact, then I'd hate to see what an extra 90 cents to 1 dollar per month is going to do to the average Detroiter. I definitely feel an agenda by the paper, 4.7% increase sounds more ominous than an extra $6 a year. Sometimes I wish some of the suburban communities get their own water AND sewage (because many suburban communities don't want to control or build a sewage system, only water) then see how much the taxpayers cry when all of the initial construction costs skyrocket the price of their water. | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 1266 Registered: 11-2003 |
Ah, but didn't you hear? The suburbs have more poverty than Detroit! | ||
Moreta Member Username: Moreta Post Number: 282 Registered: 09-2004 |
Well, my impoverished suburb is getting its rates cut, so I'm happy. | ||
Detroitrulez Member Username: Detroitrulez Post Number: 54 Registered: 12-2006 |
I wish Detroit would start wielding its water power like a club over all the sprawling communities who think daily lawn watering is a God-given right. Swing for the fences Mercado! Let's put the screws to sprawldom. Oh and before you start opining about poverty in the burbs, you better clear it with Danny first. He has some 6 year old "thermal imaging" census maps which purport to demonstrate something or other. | ||
The_nerd Member Username: The_nerd Post Number: 349 Registered: 12-2003 |
Isn't it interesting how people raise hell over some of the cheapest water rates in the US yet...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12 /12/nyregion/12water.html?ref= nyregion | ||
Udmphikapbob Member Username: Udmphikapbob Post Number: 241 Registered: 07-2004 |
HA!
Mine is going up 10%. Oh No. It's like $60 every three months, so now it's $66. Crap. Turn the sprinkler off, lady. | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 5283 Registered: 02-2004 |
IT'S TIME TO GO TO LANSING AND TELL THOSE REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURES TO HAVE THE SUBURBS TAKE OVER THE DETROIT DEPARTEMENT OF WATER WORKS. | ||
Corktownmark Member Username: Corktownmark Post Number: 234 Registered: 12-2004 |
The water and sewer system pricing clearly demonstrates the cooperative nature of Detroit vis a vi the suburbs. This seems to go unnoticed by suburban politicians and suburban press like the Detnews.com. Maybe the Cobo expansion should be funded by suburban water users. That project has a regional impact as well. | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1248 Registered: 10-2003 |
Don't forget that all of the suburbs in the system CHOSE to join Detroit's system rather than build their own. Most of the representatives of DWSD's suburban municipal customers have a positive attitude toward the way Detroit runs the system. They understand that replacing and renewing infrastructure -- to keep the entire system viable -- costs money. Incidentally, DWSD is forbidden BY STATE LAW to make a profit on its water. It can only recoup the cost of delivery, and no more. There are a few very vocal opponents in the suburbs who like to play politics with the regionalization issue and make it into a city vs. suburbs thing. Good old fear... what a motivator. |
