Sewer systems are for sale in Philadelphia’s suburbs and citizens push back, fearing rate hikes
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“Then Carol, she did the little thing with a toilet,” said Lilick.
The “little thing” was a simple image that Smith dug up on a Google search, a cartoon commode with a worried expression and the palm of its hand held up. “No to sewer sale,” the cartoon toilet intoned. “Bad for residents, seniors, fixed income.”
Lilick said her online posts about sewer rates suddenly found an audience. A Facebook page was launched, local bloggers took note, a petition was organized, and yard signs went up. Scores of angry residents tuned in to borough Zoom meetings, worried that their elected officials were trying to pull a fast one.
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SCRANTON – A Scranton couple allege that negligent maintenance of their water pipes later led to the wife-plaintiff falling inside their residence and suffering serious injuries.
Doreen C. Ozovek and Jeffrey P. Ozovek of Scranton filed suit in the Lackawanna County Court of Common Pleas on April 22 versus Pennsylvania American Water, Pennsylvania American-Water Company and Pennsylvania American Water Company (doing business as “American Water Works, Co., Inc.”), all of Hershey.
“The defendants sometime prior to June 3, 2020, were engaged in the business of flushing a fire hydrant and/or flushing water lines and/or repairing water lines and/or installing water lines outside the residence owned and occupied by the plaintiffs,” the suit states.
Lisa Lilick and Carol Smith struggled to get fellow Conshohocken residents to pay attention to their campaign opposing the sale of the borough’s sewer system. Who wants to think about boring wastewater when there’s a pandemic going on? “Then Carol, she did the little thing with a toilet,” said Lilick. The “little thing” was a simple image that Smith dug up on a Google search, a cartoon commode .
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