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(The Center Square) – Retired draftsman and designer Dennis Till has exercised complete control over the look inside his suburban home just east of Reading – planning upgrades and renovations himself – but he has been unable to control the cost of a vital element that comes into the home.
Water.
Till recently paid $174.68 for a single month of water-sewer service for himself.
“I don’t sprinkle water; I don’t wash my car; nothing,” he said.
Neighbor Greg O’Brien, with three people in his home, has seen bills more than double to $250 to $275 a month. Elsewhere in Exeter Township, Berks County, some people, according to a local Pennsylvania lawmaker, are sticking to two showers a week or limiting toilet flushes.
“They are literally driving people out of this community,” said Republican Rep. Mark Gillen. “People are saying, ‘We just cannot afford $3,600 a year for water and sewer.'”
The problem-plagued Exeter system was public until Read Entire Article
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