For the average user, bills could increase 13 percent.
From a Village of Woodridge news release: Effective January 1, 2013, residents that receive wastewater treatment services from DuPage County will experience an increase in their bill. For the average user (11,000 gallons bi-monthly), this will represent approximately a $5, or 13 percent, increase in their bill. For more information on your wastewater bill, visit DuPage County's Public Works page. Woodridge water customers receive Lake Michigan water through three systems, the City of Chicago, DuPage County Water Commission, and Woodridge water systems. As with all goods and services the cost to produce, deliver, and treat water, including maintaining and replacing infrastructure, is on the rise. On January 1, 2013, the City of Chicago …
Private water supplier launches telephone campaign, website.
As five area municipalities move closer to attempting a takeover of an Illinois American Water pipeline, the company hit back, launching a new website and conducting a telephone survey of residents of the communities. Chris Bacon, Illinois American’s Chicago metro area external affairs manager, said the calls are aimed at gauging what residents know about the proposed takeover. “We just want to gain a better understanding of our customers and their understanding of eminent domain,” Bacon said. Five communities — Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Homer Glen, Woodridge and Lemont — have begun the process of creating a water agency, with the aim of acquiring the Illinois American Water pipeline through eminent domain. By taking over the pipeline, the …
Mayor says private water company has offered nothing but higher rates for residents.
The Bolingbrook Village Board approved an ordinance Tuesday for an intergovernmental agreement between the villages of Bolingbrook, Homer Glen, Woodridge, Romeoville and Lemont, for the purposes of establishing a municipal joint action water agency “to provide adequate supplies of water on an economical and efficient basis for members’ municipalities.” Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar said the ordinance removes the Village of Plainfield, which had originally signed on but later opted out and adds the Village of Lemont to the agreement. Claar said he has always favored tapping into Lake Michigan water because “no engineer could tell us there was sufficient water in the aquifers below us” to provide an adequate supply of clean water for …
