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RESOLUTION OPPOSING ASSUMPTION OF THE
REHABILITATION BY THE METROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DIST.
OBLIGATION AND COST OF LOCAL SEWER SEPARATION
WHEREAS, the City of Muskego, although notat the present time
under contract with the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District,
is deeply concerned over the possibility of the Metropolitan
and local sewer rehabilitation, and
Sewerage District assuming the cost of local sewer separation
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Sewerage District will consider
adoption of a Master Facilities Plan on June 5, 1980, and
WHEREAS, it appears that the programs outlined in the Master
Facilities Plan would include the separation of combined sewers
in a 27 sq. mile area of the City of Milwaukee at a cost of
$640,000,000.00 and sewer rehabilitation throughout the district
at a potential cost of $160,000,000.00, and ..
WHEREAS, historically the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage
District function has been limited to construction and
operation of sewerage treatment plants and major interceptor
sewers, local collector sewer systems have been the respon-
built and are operated, and
sibility of the municipalities in which these systems were
WHEREAS, historically the Metropolitan Sewerage District's
functions have never crossed into other county jurisdictions,
and
WHEREAS, it would be extremely inequitable for the District
now to accept for the first time local sewer separation and local
sewer rehabilitation as a District responsibility, thus doubling
the project cost, and imposing mandatory cost sharing on munic-
rehabilitation problems, and
ipalities that have no significant local sewer separation or
WHEREAS, the Common Council of the City of Muskego wishes to
express its strong objections to any proposal which would commit
the citizens of the City of Muskego to assume a portion of the
cost of district-wide sewer separation and rehabilitation,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Common Council of the City
whereby the Metropolitan Sewerage District would assume the
of Muskego does hereby go on record as opposing any proposal
obligation and cost of sewer separation, local sewer rehabilita-
Muskego.
tion and construction and management of sewers in the City of
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be sent
Adelman and State Representative James Rutkowski.
to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, Senator Lynn
City Clerk
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