{"id":17426,"date":"2024-06-26T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T19:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=17426"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T19:03:41","slug":"decatur-sewer-water-rates-under-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/26\/decatur-sewer-water-rates-under-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Decatur sewer, water rates under study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The loss of a major revenue source has the City of Decatur looking at its water and sewer rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clerk-treasurer Kevin Hackman told the city&#8217;s board of works and safety at its latest meeting that he recommends doing a study of the current sewer rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/8B2DA7E5132C42B5BF5A08DF866F43BE.jpg?resize=576%2C288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/8B2DA7E5132C42B5BF5A08DF866F43BE.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/8B2DA7E5132C42B5BF5A08DF866F43BE.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Crowe LLC was nearing the completion of a study of water rates, it was decided to have the South Bend firm do a sewer rate study as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Dean Foods went out of business here a couple of years ago, city water and sewage revenues took a big hit. Dean was the city&#8217;s largest sewage customer and its second-largest water user, according to Hackman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current lower revenues could cause a drop the city&#8217;s bond rating, a key to gaining lower interest rates on bond issuances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is believed that once the Country Butcher beef processing facility \u2013 which took over the Industrial Park plant Dean had occupied \u2013 gets into full operation it could significantly help replace the Dean revenue loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com The loss of a major revenue source has the City of Decatur looking at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-17426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}