Orange Beach will lease lines beyond its limits to private firm; bills to rise $5Thursday, March 20, 2008 Staff Reporter
By RYAN DEZEMBER
ORANGE BEACH -- Within six months, a private company will begin treating wastewater generated by about 800 Orange Beach sewer customers who live outside the city limits.
The City Council -- minus Tracy Holiday, who was absent -- voted unanimously Tuesday to lease most of its lines north of the Intracoastal Waterway to Alabama Utility Services.
The Pell City company is building a treatment plant north of Lillian and the effluent from the Orange Beach customers will be the first that the facility handles, said David Whetstone, a lawyer for the sewer company.
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