Bronaugh Aldermen discuss lagoon shutdown and fire damaged property

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

By Noah Jones

Nevada Daily Mail

The Bronaugh Board of Aldermen discussed performing a rate study to find out the best rates for water because Mayor Sherry Brown said she was worried several of the city's water users were leaving.

"We have lost several users," Brown said. "So I would like to do a rate study. We can arrange for a guy to come down and do it.

"I know it's going to be inevitable that we will probably have to raise the sewer rates because we have lost users, the cost of testing supplies has gone up, which is under the umbrella of the sewer lagoon license," Brown said. "So the fact we are losing available money each month is a concern. But I think if we have someone else recommending the rates, it would be better than it coming from us."

Gary Loudermilk, the water and wastewater worker for Bronaugh said he had shut the lagoon down earlier that day, "helping to take pressure off the city."

Loudermilk said he was waiting for the city's water lab to come and take samples to compare it to last month's water toxicity levels.

"I will not be discharging until sometime next summer," Loudermilk said. "That will help the city, to a certain degree, on the fact that we will not have to pay about $350 a month for tests."

The water fund for Bronaugh last month started with a balance of $126,475.93. Bronaugh made $453 according to the financial reports for an ending balance of $126,929.49.

Loudermilk said the city would have to complete a whole effluent toxicity test in February or March. This test, he said is mandated for the one year permit cycle. He said the test would cost between $500 and $700. The WET Test is an implementation of the Clean Water Act's prohibition of the discharge toxic pollutants in toxic amounts. This test "measures wastewater's effects on specific test organisms' ability to survive, grow and reproduce," according to the Environmental Protection Agency's website.

"As long as you're not discharging any water, you don't have to run the test," said Loudermilk.

The Aldermen also discussed the Afton Bugg Dickerson-Harly residence, which was burned in a fire. Sherry Brown has sent several certified letters to Bugg, but he has refused them, according to the minutes from the last board meeting.

"I went to [their attorney Ronald] Fisk, regarding Afton Bugg's property, that is partially burned, and the ordinance we have right now is for grass and trash and for him to write a letter," said Brown. "He said we could come in and mow, and they have resolved that issue. He wrote us an ordinance providing for the repair, vacation and demolitions of buildings found to be dangerous in accordance to the terms..."

Brown asked the board to look over the ordinance, and for them to decide if they wanted to pass or accept this ordinance. Brown said Fisk advised her to wait 60-90 days to decide.

The board will decide on what to do with the ordinance during the Nov. 2, board meeting.

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Do you really think raising the sewer rates is going to help our town? You are seriously mistaking, no one wants to live here, I would sell my house in a heartbeat and move out of this dreadful town if someone would buy it. But guess what!? No one wants to live here. The streets are crap, the water is crap, you can't drink it, you smell like chlorine after you shower, and your clean cloths still smell dirty.

All you guys are going to do is run this town further into the ground, and those of us that own our houses are going to be in trouble because our property values have been deprecating and you're going to make it worse on us. Quit bringing in people that don't care about our town or the people in this town who can't afford the water bill. What does Moundville do? I have heard that some of those people only pay $300 a YEAR for their water bill.

As for the property owned by Afton Bugg, she isn't that hard to find. She works at Verizon. Some Saturdays she can be found standing on the street corner at Family Video with her boycotting signs. And it isn't just her property either that needs cleaned up. What about the property behind her, the property as you are coming in south on the highway, the property south of town on 2nd street, the house on 6th street?

Millman had the right idea when he was trying to clean our town up, he just got a big head and went about it all wrong.

Mean while Mayor Brown you just wasted more of our money going to the attorney when we have people on our town committee that needs to clean up their property. They will never agree to clean this town up because that would mean them as well.

-- Posted by Mom70 on Thu, Oct 8, 2015, at 9:58 PM

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