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		<title>Higher Sewer Fee Plan Looms as Cecil County Faces Mandated $40M Upgrade of Seneca Point; Broomell Questions Technology</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study of sewer user fees is being drafted as part of the new Cecil County budget process and the county’s public works director warned Tuesday that the fees paid by current and future users of the Seneca Point treatment plant will have to rise to offset some of the costs of a $40 million upgrade required by state environmental standards. “We are in the process of updating” a previous proposal for sewer service rates and “it’s going to have to be increased—that’s not a secret,” said Scott Flanigan, the county’s Director of Public Works. Last year, a majority of the former Board of Commissioners refused to approve most of the higher fees called for in a previous study of rates and fees. Sewage treatment services are considered an “enterprise” fund separate from general county tax revenues and the costs of providing such sewer services are supposed to be paid by those residents and businesses whose properties are connected to the system. But if county officials refuse—as the Three Amigos faction of the Commissioners did last year—to raise user fees sufficiently to cover costs, general tax money ends up supporting the system. Much of the county’s residential properties rely [&#8230;]]]></description>
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