Some Trumbull County residents will pay higher sewer bills

WARREN — The average sewer bill for 10,500 customers in the Metropolitan Sewer District in central and southern Trumbull County will rise about $6.60 per month starting in September and increase another 90 cents per month in each of the next four years.

The increase was approved today by Trumbull County commissioners, though one of the three commissioners, Dan Polivka, voted against it.

Polivka said he opposed the increase because it involved an 18.3 percent increase in the first year and 3 percent in each of the four years that follow.

Commissioner Paul Heltzel, however, said commissioners spent several weeks examining the numbers presented by Rex Fee, executive director of the county sanitary engineering department, and decided that the increase was necessary.

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