Bayside's village government is acting as a financial conduit for four private water projects expected to occur this summer.
Bayside is allowing 157 property owners to switch from well water to city water, and providing financing for the project—expected to cost each residential property owner between $10,000 and $12,000. Currently, about 70 percent of Bayside residents have well water, either private or shared systems. For several years, Northway Water Co-op No. 1 Trustee Howard Feiges has been fighting for residents in portions of the village to get municipal water. Other water trusts—the 29-home Vista Del Mar Water Trust, eight-home Santa Monica Water Trust and 38-home Northway Water Co-op No. 2—later joined, doubling the scope of the potential project. On Thursday, the Village Board approved financing for all four water projects. Each trust volunteered to …
Costs to maintain well water in Bayside continue to balloon, but switching to municipal water carries a large, long-term price tag.
Bayside residents looking to make the switch from maintaining private wells to the lesser responsibility of having city water may each face up to a $13,000 bill for constructing the mains over the next two decades. About 70 percent of Bayside residents currently have well water, whether individual, private or shared. Those wells are coupled with continually increasing costs for maintenance and Howard Feiges, trustee for Northway Water co-op No. 1, is making the push to get residents to switch to city water with Mequon Water Utilty. Feiges contends a homeowner on a private well can expect to pay $10,000 on repair costs during a 10-year period and a switch to municipal water would mean Mequon is responsible for the repairs. Currently, …
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