MSD Deputy Director Robert J. Campbell asked commissioners to give their blessing to the overall plan, although each expenditure still must be approved individually by commissioners as the projects begin. Commissioner Bob Bedinghaus was out of town Monday, but commissioners plan to hold a public hearing on the document Feb. 16 and vote on it afterward. The document sets a priority list of projects, showing the different stages each project is in, that MSD must get done in the coming year. Because if some emergency project goes into the plan, something has to come out.
Sanitary sewer overflows are the subject of a federal lawsuit against Hamilton County.
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