Watching our water and sewer rates soar yet again is, to put it mildly, disagreeable.
Unfortunately, it’s the price we pay for past failures to pay for and maintain the sewer system and for replacement of a 70-year-old Water Treatment Plant. That’s the story behind our report on rising water rates on today’s page 1.
Our sewer system was a sieve that spilled untreated wastewater into the South Santiam during heavy storms, something that is…