{"id":426,"date":"2015-12-12T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2015\/12\/12\/private-property-rights-trend-water-agencies-compel-owners-to-fix-pipes-1-local-gov-solution-1-statewide-legislative-solution\/"},"modified":"2015-12-12T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T20:49:00","slug":"private-property-rights-trend-water-agencies-compel-owners-to-fix-pipes-1-local-gov-solution-1-statewide-legislative-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/private-property-rights-trend-water-agencies-compel-owners-to-fix-pipes-1-local-gov-solution-1-statewide-legislative-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Property Rights. Trend: Water Agencies Compel Owners to Fix Pipes. 1 Local Gov. Solution. 1 Statewide Legislative Solution."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Utilities are targeting \u00a0private property owners pipes to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>repair old and leaky \u00a0pipes<\/li>\n<li>to prevent \u00a0big problems like sinkholes and overflows of sewage into waterways\n<ul>\n<li>which leads to water plants treating more water than necessary, and driving up costs for ratepayers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why are utilities targeting the pipes that\u00a0are out\u00a0of their control?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>water utilities are struggling to reduce costs<\/li>\n<li>utilities are having a hard time complying with federal clean water mandates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What programs have emerged around the country?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cincinnati partially funds repairs for the costs of repairs to pipes under city streets\n<ul>\n<li>the repairs are mandatory when the property sells or is significantly remodeled<\/li>\n<li>At sale or remodel, mandatory pipe testing is required for lateral pipes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Pittsburg is pushing PA&#8217;s legislature to pass a bill to allow a\u00a0water utility to fix leaky pipes that the utility doesn&#8217;t own &amp; recoup the cost from the property owner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/gov-water-utilities-target-private-leaky-pipes.html\">Governing |\u00a0Water Utilities Target Private, Leaky Pipes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Utilities are targeting \u00a0private property owners pipes to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>repair old and leaky \u00a0pipes<\/li>\n<li>to prevent \u00a0big problems like sinkholes and overflows of sewage into waterways\n<ul>\n<li>which leads to water plants treating more water than necessary, and driving up costs for ratepayers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why are utilities targeting the pipes that\u00a0are out\u00a0of their control?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>water utilities are struggling to reduce costs<\/li>\n<li>utilities are having a hard time complying with federal clean water mandates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What programs have&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure-building","category-private-property-rights","category-water","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}