It’ll cost over a billion dollars to fix our sewers, and there’s absolutely zero way this happens without federal money (especially before the laughable 2035 deadline).

“Officials have long said that residential utility rates could triple if the city doesn’t receive help in the form of grant money...At the federal level, those include congressional earmarks; the Sewer Overflow and Stormwater Grant Program; and Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loans.”

https://www.vpm.org/news/2023-06-30/richmond-stormwater-state-funding-stalled