jenks, owasso, ba- water rate increase?

[Chicken Little]

Not all of it:

http://www.cityoftulsa.org/CityServices/Wastewater/TreatmentPlants.asp

Most of BA:
"The plant serves the southeastern Tulsa tributary to Fry, Vensel and Haikey Creek and the Broken Arrow tributary to Haikey Creek."

[RecycleMichael]

You are both right and both wrong.

Broken Arrow has two treatment plants. The Lynn Lane plant handles 2.9 million gallons a day and the Haikey Creek plant takes 4.5 million gallons a day from Broken Arrow residents.

The Lynn lane plant is owned and operated by Broken Arrow and the Haikey Creek plant is jointly owned and operated by Tulsa and Broken Arrow.

If it stinks, call Michael.

[carltonplace]

quote:Originally posted by TeeDub


While I admire your wonderfully defeatist attitude of "they didn't pander to our rich friends so let's take them down with us..."    

Last time I checked, BA has it's own water treatment plant and goes so far as to sell water to some rural water districts.  I can't imagine that they would give Tulsa the money if they did raise the rates.

I think raising Tulsa's water prices on the other hand is a great idea and they should definitely do it to encourage business into the area.

It's not defeatist; it's realistic. If regionalism is dead and it's every town for itself (and I think it's fairly obvious based on the responses on this forum and to the Tulsa World that the suburbs don't want to be part of a larger community) then why should Tulsa continue to provide services to it's own detriment? The "Do the Streets" first crowd is right we need infra-structure improvements. But why should Tulsa tax-payers foot the bill and then let the burbs tear them up for free? Why do we pay for a Metro Chamber to bring Bass Pro Shops to BA instead of finding new businesses for down town? Why charge below market rate for water that we clean and pump? Why would Tulsans fund rural county fire brigades with our property taxes or fix roads with our large portion of county sales tax collections?

If regionalism is dead then the county will never successfully pass another proposal. I hope this is not the case but based on all of the vitriol and negativity being poured into Tulsa now as a result of this failed tax proposal it appears that it's now every town for itself.