The top supervisor of the Prichard and Chickasaw water system delivered a sobering message to customers on Wednesday: Rates are going up.
Mac Underwood, the utility’s director, said rate hikes are unavoidable if lenders succeed in getting a court-ordered receiver to oversee operations. And he acknowledged that will be the case if the Prichard Waters Works & Sewer Board successfully negotiates afor a private investment group to lease and operate the system. He said the water board has an obligation to meet its debt requirements and maintain service.
The companies would invest additional money on repairing and replacing aging and crumbling pipes and equipment. Underwood said the plan also includes automating certain functions at the wastewater treatment plants. In addition, he said, the utility has verbal agreements for $5 million from the Mobile County Commission and a dollar-for-dollar match from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.
“We were prepared to pay higher rates. … Our concern is we do not want Prichard Water and Sewer Board to be over the management of this company any longer. We’d rather see it in receivership.”“Of course, I don’t like that,” he said. “I don’t for my like for my rates to go up. I already pay too much. Nobody home but me and my wife.”
“The pipes are old. A lot of them need to be replaced,” he said. “A lot of the water main and sewer main need to be replaced. A lot of service lines need to be replaced. So they would come in and actually invest quite a bit of money into the area and improve the system.”
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