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Davenport May Raise Sewer Rates

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix,

Published February 2, 2022 at 12:42 PM CST

Businesses and residents of Davenport may soon pay more for sewer service. Wednesday night, the city council will consider raising rates by five percent per year for three years.

Mallory Merritt, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant City Administrator, says that originally rates were going to increase seven percent per year but a consultant last fall recommended five percent instead.

"Seven percent was the result of a prior sewer rate study. We refreshed that this past November and the sewer fund is looking really healthy right now, so we're able to reduce that from seven percent to five percent."

Once the council gives its final approval the new rates will take effect July first.

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A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois. While a graduate student in the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield (then known as Sangamon State University), he got his first taste of public radio, covering Illinois state government for WUIS. Here in the Quad Cities, Herb worked for WHBF Radio before coming to WVIK in 1987. Herb also produces the weekly public affairs feature Midwest Week – covering the news behind the news by interviewing reporters about the stories they cover.

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