EVENDALE, Ohio - Yesterday, Communities United For Action (CUFA) members asked the Board of Hamilton County Commissioners to move forward on key points of our "People's Sewer Justice Platform." The Commissioners vowed to take action on: 

• Expansion of the Customer Assistance Program to help more people afford sewer bills; 
• Restructuring sewer rates to be fair for everyone; and
• Ending the requirement to report sewer backups within 24 hours to be eligible for damage compensation. 

Residents from Springlawn Avenue in Northside attended the meeting to ask for a resolution to sewage overflows in their backyards. 

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"In case you aren't paying attention, your sewage is much higher than the water that you are using," said CUFA Member Jeremiah Squire. "I'm on a fixed income. With the Duke bill, there's the PIPP program; for water there's no kind of program. You either pay it, or they're going to cut you off." 

Communities United For Action won a new dashboard about how the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) spends our ratepayer dollars to fix the sewers. You can see MSD's "progress on Project Groundwork" site here and link directly to the dashboard here. 

Communities United For Action (CUFA) called for comprehensive sewer reform with its People’s Sewer Justice Platform to address the public health impact of the 11.5 billion gallons of untreated sewage and storm water that the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSD) releases into yards and waterways each year.

“Communities United For Action is releasing the People’s Sewer Justice Platform to provide solutions to public officials and administrators for some of the issues our communities are facing with our county-wide water and sewer system. The solutions require transparency, accountability, fiscal oversight and service to ratepayers,” said CUFA Board Member Erica Johnson.

CUFA believes that the people closest to the problem are closest to the solution. The People's Sewer Justice Platform is a culmination of the ideals for solutions from the communities that are most impacted by sewer backups and overflows and the lack of affordability.

The full platform can be found on CUFA's website here.

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Communities United For Action (CUFA) is sending a delegation to Washington, D.C. to attend the People’s Action (PA) national conference on April 28-30, 2019. PA helps grassroots leaders meet with national decision-makers in order to improve our community. We will also meet and learn from other grassroots leaders from around the country. Learn more about how you can sponsor our team.