Voters in St. Louis County and the city of St. Louis resoundingly approved the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District’s plea for a $275 million bond issue to be spent on sewer repairs and maintenance and also reduce planned wastewater rate increases by 56 percent.
Proposition Y received 84,829 votes — or 75.46 percent — in the Aug. 5 election.
County records show that 27,594 votes — or 24.54 percent — were cast “no.”
The average residential customer will now pay $2.99 more per month for sewer charges by 2011.
If Prop Y had been rejected, that monthly sewer bill would have jumped by an average of more than $11.
Last year, residential sewer rates averaged $22.38. In January, that average residential rate climbed to $25.74.
Now that Prop Y has been approved, that average will jump more gradually to $28.