The Prichard water board is set to vote Monday on a proposal to stop providing service to new customers in the Alabama Village area, effective immediately.
) - The water board is set to vote Monday on a proposal to stop providing service to new customers in the Alabama Village area, effective immediately.
to the few remaining residents in the neighborhood. The proposal on Monday’s agenda would prohibit new service, ratifying a policy that the utility’s staff already has implemented.Alabama Village, which dates to World War II, has 350 to 400 houses. But after decades of decline, there are only 41 customers left, according to the utility. Heidelburg said providing service has become increasingly expensive, with decades-old pipes leaking huge volumes of water.
“We’ve had problems with extremely high water bills, anyway,” he said. “So that means if they don’t want to take a partial payment, your water is disconnected. … They would know nothing until they find out they can’t take a bath or have no water for hydration.” The utility maintains that some of the distribution lines are in such bad shape that they cannot be repaired.
“I do not support the moratorium because it’s not a more moratorium,” he said. “It is a trick. … It appears to me that, you know, this is another roundabout way of going in and disconnecting the water to the people of Alabama Village.”“The way that I interpreted is that no new repairs or anything like that are gonna be able to be done unless the existing residents, customers, who reside in Alabama Village are able to pay for them,” he said.
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