More than 50,000 Phoenix-area residents and businesses were past due on utility payments at the beginning of this year, according to the 12 largest Valley cities. Now, at least seven of the cities are vowing to cut customers off.
Nearly a year after most cities suspended water disconnections to thwart health concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic, more than $15 million was owed, mostly by residents. The percentage of delinquent accounts by city ranged from 1.5% to 17%, with Buckeye and Peoria maintaining the highest percentages of past-due accounts.
Utilities in most cities include water, sewer and trash services, which usually are self-sustaining and funded directly by customers, not taxes.
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As head of Barnstable High School s new $1.2 million Environmental Science and Technology Lab, Michael Smith cannot wait to get to work.
Now entering his 18th year of teaching at BHS, Smith teaching environmental science and biology in the school s student-driven Environmental Science and Technology Pathway.
He also is collaborating with some of the region s most accomplished scientists – among them, Laurel Schaider of The Silent Spring Institute; Amy Costa of the Center for Coastal Studies; and Zenas Crocker, Barnstable Clean Water Coalition – to start a high school intership program.
The new lab opened to BHS students Oct. 26. A partnership between Town Manager Mark Ells, a water engineer who worked with Brian Howe, professor of marine science and technology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Supt. Meg Mayo-Brown, the lab will help grow partnerships and collaborations with people who actually work in the industry on the C
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