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$40M in wastewater facility and infrastructure updates to impact Huntingburg utility rates
The Huntingburg Common Council, Huntingburg Rate Advisory Board and the Huntingburg Board of Public Works and Safety met in a special meeting and ultimately made several decisions to move forward with a complete update of the wastewater treatment facility.
Those included issuing up to $50 million in bonds and stair-stepping wastewater rate increases to pay for the updated facility and operations.
Eric Parsley, with Commonwealth Engineers, gave an overview of the multiyear process to this point and reviewed the issues with the existing wastewater treatment facility.
He explained that the facility’s age was a large factor in pursuing the needed update. The last upgrade to the plant occurred about 30 years ago, and some of the units at the plant were put in service in 1957.