Trumbull County suing Niles over water bill
Staff report
WARREN
The Trumbull County commissioners have filed a lawsuit in common pleas court asking a judge to order Niles to arbitrate a disagreement over what the county feels is a $330,000 overpayment for water.
The lawsuit says the county and city formalized an agreement in 2004 calling for Niles to provide bulk water to the county’s Mosquito Creek Sewer District and Howland Water District.
In 2010, the county discovered the meter used to calculate the amount to charge the county for the water was inaccurate “and, in fact, was an incorrect meter, which was installed by the personnel from the [city],” the suit says.
The result was the county was overcharged $330,965.
Read more about the claim in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.