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.

Cincinnati, Ohio – Communities United For Action (CUFA) outlined commitments made by the Hamilton County Commissioners in their November 13 public meeting on sewers and today delivered a reminder of those commitments.

The Commissioners had committed to having an answer by the end of November on whether they would impose a moratorium on water shutoffs until a Customer Assistance Program is in place, but did not have the topic on the agenda for their meeting today. Instead, Commissioners committed to $15 million for infrastructure for FC Cincinnati.