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Sunday, November 11, 2007
County commissioner wants to fine water hogs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
County commissioner Lorraine Green wants to put teeth in Gov. Sonny Perdue’s recent edict that wholesale water providers cut their water use by 10 percent.
Green proposes that the large water system operators be slapped with a fine based on 200 percent of the base rates they pay if they don’t meet the 10 percent threshold.
Green’s plan also offers rebates to homeowners who replace water-wasting toilets with low-flow ones.
“The program is designed to ‘spread the pain’ as evenly as possible,” Green said. “It adds surcharges to large users who do not conserve. It does not single out one single user or industry.”
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