City of Fort Wayne Presentation on Aqua Indiana

Here's the presentation I promised. I wish you could hear Ted Nitza's commentary that went with it but the discussion simply lasted too long. However, the presentation by itself presents a compelling case for why the city should take over Aqua Indiana services...

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Aqua Indiana Doesn't Want Facts to Get in the Way of Television Time

In an earlier post I mentioned that the Aqua Indiana lawyer embarrassed himself by saying that he could rebut the city's points but that he didn't want to take away from everyone's television time. Well here's the video...

Aqua Indiana Takeover

At tonight's city council meeting Ted Nitza, engineer and program manager for City Utilities, gave a devastating presentation on why the city of Fort Wayne must take over Aqua Indiana North. I assure you there wasn't a single person in the room that left there thinking the city was making a mistake.

After Nitza's presentation, the attorney for Aqua Indiana spoke before council and essentially made a fool out of himself when he said that he could rebut all of Nitza's points but he figured people would want to get home and watch television instead. I'm not joking. Then when pressed on the simplest details that anyone involved with Aqua Indiana should know, he had no answers. All in all, an extraordinarily professional display from Nitza (something we don't always get from the city) and a woeful performance from Aqua Indiana.

I hope to have the presentation available for download tomorrow as I think many of you will want to look at it but for now here are a few highlights:

1. Aqua Indiana sends 50% more sewage/household than the IDEM design standard; this is the equivalent of 328 households of waste


2. Aqua Indiana has a 90 day 610,000 gal limit and they've exceeded it 77% of the time
   
3. Despite budgeting $400k/year for improvements they have actually only spent $34k, $38k and $150k in 2004-2006


4. Aqua Indiana owes the city $2.1 Million and 75% of their payments were late and no late fees have been paid


5. 83% of the $30 Million investment they are using to justify their 100% rate increase for their North residents was actually made in Southwest Fort Wayne


6. There will be no rate increase to existing city customers

Really, this just doesn't do it justice - wait until you see the whole presentation...