The West Rankin Utility Authority sued the city of Jackson in Rankin County Circuit Court on April 14. West Rankin asks the court to return to it "all amounts paid by the Authority to the City associated with the Sludge Project" and cites "years of mismanagement at the Savanna Plant" as a basis for the request.
West Rankin argues that the two parties agreed in 2002 that West Rankin would pay Jackson to treat its wastewater (Agreement is Exhibit A in the documents posted below.). However, West Rankin claims that it is not supposed to pay for
the city's years of sludge mismanagement which directly resulted from the city's failure to repair severe breaks, cracks, and holes in the City's wastewater collection system.West Rankin also argued that at times the influx of storm water casued the amount of wastewater and sludge "delivered to the Savanna Plant to
at times exceed 163 million gallons per day, which greatly exceeds the Plant's average daily treatment capacity which is 46 million gallons of wastewater per day.
West Rankin stated that the holding capacity of the storm cells at Savanna decreased by 70% because of sludge accumulation in the system and the city's failure to address these problems. It says the "continued mismanagement" was the subject of a consent decree between the city and EPA.
The complaint accuses the city of charging some of the costs to implement the consent decree against West Rankin. It argues that West Rankin is responsible for paying for the treatment of its wastewater, not paying for costs associated with Jackson's alleged negligence in maintaining its system.
West Rankin also asks the court to decree that Jackson can not recover any costs associated with the consent decree against West Rankin as its wastewater directly enters into the Savanna plant and avoids the storm cells.
7 comments:
Put a stop valve on the lines at the Pearl and tell them to sit and spin.
Is this in the proper court?
"Years of mismanagement is a fairly vague concept".
Fine, if they want to dispute sludge. But, aside from the fact that those who live in glass houses should be careful about throwing stones, this is a political move.
They hope to strengthen their argument for their own water system .
The problem is they haven't done due diligence . They are basing this " good idea" on construction costs without a clue of the actual costs much less the real socio-economic impact.
For example, I don't suppose it's ever occurred to Rankin county politicians backing this that many of their residents actually work, eat, get medical treatment, have kids attending private schools do business in Jackson, The might get thirsty while they are there or hungry ( yes, water is used in the preparation of food).
What a boondoggle this will turn out to be even if it's stopped in its tracks, it's a waste of taxpayer time and money to pursue something so obviously stupid to anyone who isn't going to make a buck!
It's in the pooper court, 9:07
@9:46, after WRUA gets through separating itself from the titanic known as the bold new city, it will be high time for political leadership to turn their sites on the airport in like manner. That day is coming.
That is a pretty ignorant comment as Jackson OWNS the airport. Why don't you tell me how political leadership will take it from Jackson after turning its "sites" on the airport.
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