Gossips has been monitoring the revenue shortfalls reported by the city treasurer at Finance Committee meetings, and it seems all of the major revenue sources for the City are lagging far behind what was anticipated for 2020. But, in this year from hell, there is one revenue source that is exceeding expectation.
Tonight, at the Common Council Public Works and Parks Committee meeting, DPW superintendent Rob Perry reported that the income from septage--that is, the processing for profit of waste material from septic tanks and similar sources through Hudson's waste water treatment plant--is exceeding what was anticipted in the 2020 budget. The anticipated revenue written into the budget was $25,000 a month. For the month of June, the revenue realized was $45,000. It is projected that the income from septage in 2020 will exceed expectation by $112,000.
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I guess kale is still the one kind of green we can depend on to pay dividends.
ReplyDeleteMore septic revenues means more septic trucks, and these are the big, loud, heavy (especially when arriving full at 30-plus tons), and diesel/cancer/asthma/global warming-spewing types, rolling through our most challenged neighborhoods non-stop during the day. We're gonna need that extra money to repair the roads and infrastructure these additional beasts deliver.
ReplyDeleteAnd Rob Perry doesn't require the truck drivers to turn their engines off while they wait to empty their poop water at the treatment plant. 2 months ago I timed the 4th truck waiting in line as its engine idled -- 55 minutes. Banking on more septic revenue is a deal with the devil. Be careful what you wish for and trust little of what Mr. Perry claims. BILL HUSTON
Deliveries of outside septic waste are not timed with major rain events, which means they may partially cause and then contribute to sewage overflows into the North Bay and Hudson River.
ReplyDeleteIn a more enlightened society, the otherwise lucrative deliveries would be suspended before and during heavy rains.
Hudson is #1 at #2!
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