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. 

CINCINNATI - Starting today, seniors may qualify for a 25% discount on the sewer portion of their bill. This is a huge CUFA victory, a milestone marking our first Customer Assistance Program in Hamilton County. We are celebrating August 12 from 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM!

CINCINNATI - After years of delayed sewer fixes caused by infighting between the City of Cincinnati and Hamilton County over the Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) ordered the City and County to move forward with plans they agreed to a decade ago.

MEDIA STATEMENT

DATE:  April 23, 2018

Statement of Wanda Ball, on behalf of Communities United For Action (CUFA)

Cincinnati, Ohio - In response to the Hamilton County Commissioners passage of the proposed senior Customer Assistance Program for sewer bills Tuesday, Communities United For Action member Wanda Ball said:

“Communities United For Action and the public provided recommendations for improving the senior Customer Assistance Program at the February 19, 2019 public hearing. Two months later, they finally passed a program making only one improvement- raising the discount from 20% to 25%. Commissioners vowed to expand the program, and it is our hope that expanded programs won’t be delayed like this one. People need help with sewer bills now.” 

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) 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. 

CUFA victory: We won notifications in every water & sewer bill about the Sewer Backup Response program! We've interviewed countless people who never knew the program existed, so they didn't get help with multiple sewer backups. 

CUFA Releases People’s Sewer Justice Platform

Cincinnati, Ohio – Last Thursday, Communities United For Action (CUFA) hosted Children’s Hospital doctors doing ongoing research on child health disparities in Hamilton County.