Bossier City Council works on residents’ request to be included in sewer system – KTBS

Hope Street, Bossier city. It's a one street-subdivision with only 14 homes.

The street was built 30 years ago.

It's been annexed into the city and its residents pay city taxes, get city water, and trash pick-up, but they aren't connected to the city's sewer system.

After requests from residents tired of maintaining and repairing outdated septic tanks--the city is now considering hooking them up.

City Councilman Scott Irwin gives them his full support.

"Septic tanks are not ideal when you have houses that are that close in proximity," Irwin said. "You can have mosquito problems and other issues, and so they think that it's time for them to tie into the sewer, and I agree."

In their most recent meetin, the Bossier City Council went over a proposed ordinance that will allocate $350-thousand to extend sewer lines to this subdivision.

Most were in favor, but an old ordinance was brought up in the meeting, it states the city can only fund half of the cost to hook up homes on annexed property.

So will this prevent the new ordinance from going through? Councilman Scott Irwin says he doesn't think so.

"The intent of that ordinance was really concerning new development and annexing land into the city. So if we have a new development come in, we want to make sure it has city water and sewer put in by the developer, but this problem on Hope Street is a long standing problem and the city has fixed problems like this in the past."

If the new ordinance passes, the city will install sewer lines close to the subdivision, however, residents will still be responsible for connecting their homes to the line.

Five residents told KTBS 3 they are thrilled for the possible change to come and will be glad to get rid of their septic tanks that they say can be a pain to maintain, repair, or replace.

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