For The Times Leader
BARNESVILLE Village officials will not pursue a sewer rate increase this year and discussed options for tackling at least one large infrastructure project.
Councilman Tim McKelvey on March 29 made the announcement concerning sewer rates, saying the decision had been reached during a Water & Sewer Committee meeting held March 25. He said members would look at a possible rate increase again next year.
Village Administrator Roger Deal added, “We have enough data that it just wasn’t justifiable to impose the rate increase.”
The committee meeting had been called for during the March 15 council meeting when several critical, but expensive, infrastructure projects were discussed at length. An overhaul of the Westview Drive sewer lift station, which could cost as much as $385,000, was prioritized by Deal as the most critical of the projects discussed.