Saturday, February 24, 2007

Small Ohio Cities now pay for NPDES

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Homeowners in small Ohio cities are likely to see water and sewer bills go up to pay for treating the motor oil and other pollutants that wash from their driveways and flow toward streams.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has recently told 36 cities that it's their turn to meet federal mandates to apply for a pollution discharge permit and submit a plan for handling runoff from rainstorms. Large and medium cities went through the changes in the past decade.

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