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Hammond reaches settlement in water rate lawsuit, McDermott says


HAMMOND — The city of Hammond has reached a settlement deal with five Northwest Indiana communities that sued late last year to object to Hammond s newly approved water rate hikes. 
Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. confirmed the existence of a pending settlement between Hammond and towns of Highland, Munster, Griffith, Dyer and city of Whiting during a City Council meeting this week. 
The Hammond City Council voted 9-0 in November to raise Hammond residents’ water bills from 44 cents to $1.90 per 1,000 gallons starting Jan. 1. 
The rate hike — which also applied to wholesale customers — was swiftly criticized by the officials in Highland, Munster, Griffith, Dyer and Whiting. They argued that the sudden, automatic triggering of rate hikes for those cities and towns were discriminatory, unreasonable, and unjust under Indiana law, and followed up with a lawsuit.  ....

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Hammond, Chicago mayors make final pitch to Joliet to sell water


HAMMOND — Minutes after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot stepped out of the Joliet City Council chambers Thursday night, the mayor from Hammond walked in, quickly addressing the elephant in the room.
“It’s tough to follow the great mayor of city of Chicago,” Thomas McDermott Jr. said as he took out his notes at the podium that laid out all the reasons he thinks the Joliet council should pick Hammond, not Chicago, to supply its drinking water for the next 100 years.
McDermott and Lightfoot and each respective teams pitched their final presentations to Joliet city officials Thursday night during a special council meeting, as Joliet approaches the end of its two-year alternative water source study.  ....

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