Tuesday, August 23, 2016
DeKalb’s Sewer System Problems
Jefferson County Alabama that includes Birmingham is the poster child
for counties who ignore their sewer system maintenance. They went bankrupt in a $3 billion sewer
rebuild, water bills quadrupled and property values plummeted. To pay for this
debacle, all county residents were forced to abandon their perfectly functional
septic tanks and wells and become customers of the county water system.
The problem in DeKalb appears to be the aging sewer pipe system. All of these old pipes are underground and
under roads, are extremely expensive to replace and are everywhere. DeKalb County’s failure to maintain these
pipes on schedule needs to be corrected by getting this maintenance ahead of
schedule.
The cost of replacing these pipes will be paid through our water bills,
so we are interested in DeKalb reducing expenses for other less critical county
responsibilities.
The next few posts chronicle some history of DeKalb’s struggle to fix
their sewer system plus an article about Jefferson County Alabama’s sewer
system disaster.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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