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@Bob Cushman, You can't compare burying electrical wires with sewers. They simply aren't the same. The entire community and state benefit from having clean water in the bay. Buried power lines make for a nicer neighborhood but there is no value extended beyond that neighborhood. Not wanting all residents to support our sewers is the same as saying only those with children in schools should pay for schools. Schools and sewers both add to the value of the community. We all benefit and all of the projects should have been spread equally across all taxpayers from the beginning.

Is it your point that the reason more recent sewer projects have costs a lot more because they were more coastal? When the buttonwoods project was being formed the reasons given for higher costs were inflation, increased construction costs (not because it was coastal) higher steel and oil prices. I don't remember any argument that coastal location was a cost driver. It could have been but it wasn't highlighted. BTW, what is the $20,000-$30,000 construction cost estimate? At $81/foot a house would have to have 246 feet of frontage to costs $20,000. I think I had 80 feetish and it cost me about $7,000. It was a while ago, but it was definitely under $10,000.

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