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Parkersburg Utility Board updates agreement with Lubeck

PARKERSBURG — The Parkersburg Utility Board will pay the Lubeck Public Service District a much larger monthly fee to bill its sewer customers after updating an agreement made more than 30 years ago.

Approximately 430 customers have PUB sewer and Lubeck water. Under an agreement made in 1983, the PUB pays the district a flat $150 a month to act as its agent, billing and collecting the sewer fees.

A new agreement approved unanimously by the board at its regular meeting on Wednesday will pay the district 7.5 percent of the money collected. While it’s expected to cost the PUB an average of $1,400 a month, Manager Eric Bennett said it was an overdue change.

“They (Lubeck officials) brought it up that they felt it needed adjusted, and rightly so,” he said. “A hundred fifty dollars is well below what it should have been.”

The agreement was approved after a brief executive session.

In other business, the board unanimously approved the 25th payment, for $220,219.99, for the ongoing wastewater treatment plant upgrade. They also passed 4-0 an amendment to the engineering services agreement that frees up an additional $88,551 of the $12.8 million project loan from the West Virginia Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council.

Bennett said since the loan has already been given and the utility’s rates were set up based on that amount, returning the excess funds would have little impact. Instead, he is looking at maintenance projects the utility would have to pay for anyway. One of those is the repair of the roof of storage building.

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