1. What do you feel is the likelihood that County will increase the hookup fees from existing residential units from $2,500 to $4,500?

2. What is the monthly or quarterly charge for sewer fees per unit?

Thank you for your assistance.

I dread that anyone dared Mr. Dunn to come up with a creative solution for county finances. We better put that in the category of being careful what we ask for.

The suggestion that developers be grandfathered to sewer hook up rates insufficient to recover county costs is almost as disturbing as asking Mr. Dunn for financial guidance. When costs escalate, the purchaser of that home pays for it. Having my own septic and drain field system to maintain, I am sick and tired of subsidizing the users of public sewers. The county has always underestimated, or worse, deliberately undercharged, the cost of sewer and water infrastructure and just gave it away. That must stop. Staring at an ugly reality does not make it easier to accept.

As an aside, what is happening in Elkton? They now obtain water from an enterprise reporting to stockholders. The county and bumbling municipalities failed to build a pipeline from the Susquahanna; the inept local governments allowed a private company to walk away with the Susquahanna water allocation to the Bainbridge site; and now the water rates being charged in Elkton truly recover all the costs, and then some. The residents of Elkton now live in a world of realistic water and sewer rates; why do the County Commissioners still hide their heads in the sand?