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The price we’d pay for not having effective sewer, water, and garbage systems is high
PERSPECTIVE
horse manure
In 1894, New York City had 100,000 plus horses producing 2.5 million pounds of manure, not to mention all the urine, on any given day. Shown are wagons hauling away manure. Experts say the amount of manure back then generated in one day was the equivalent of 250 garbage truckloads today.
Bristle, if you will, but you and I are the reason we pay as much as we do for sewer service. The pending Manteca sewer rate hike going from the current $43.40 a month in four annual steps to $72.50 by 2029 is not the result of government waste or excess.