City says sewer overflow plan will be cheaper, quicker

The costly plan to eliminate sewer overflows in Columbus now will come in $800 million under cost and 10 years sooner than originally projected. And because of that, ratepayers might not face double-digit increases as they saw in some years over the past decade. The Columbus City Council is expected to vote next month on a 3.3-percent hike for 2016. That’s according to the Blueprint Columbus plan the city recently submitted for approval to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The orig