Griffith sanitary sewer rates slated to go up, and up and up, as part of Hammond consent decree
If you're a Griffith home or business owner, you can count on a sanitary rate increase this year, and a 5-10-cent increase per 1,000 gallons every ...
If you're a Griffith home or business owner, you can count on a sanitary rate increase this year, and a 5-10-cent increase per 1,000 gallons every year through 2030. Griffith is not unlike other communities that receive their Lake Michigan water and purchase sewage treatment from the Hammond Sanitary District (HSD). And as an HSD customer, Griffith must absorb the costs Hammond is passing down to comply with a 2017 federal consent decree directing sewage treatment plant upgrades. A U.S. District Court found the HSD, and its customers, in violation of the U.