Public Meetings About Rising Sewer Rates

The Indianapolis Department of Public Works will hold three public meetings to inform the public about potential sanitary sewer rate increases for 2009 through 2013 to fund the city's Clean Streams-Healthy Neighborhoods program.

The majority of the proposed increase is needed to keep Indianapolis in compliance with a federally mandated consent decree to address the city's raw sewage overflows.

4 December: Auditorium, Family/Recreation Center, Brookside Park, 3500 Brookside Pkwy South Drive, Indianapolis -- 6:30 p.m., Formal presentation; 7:30 to 8 p.m., Open house.

9 December: Room A, Carson Government Center, 300 East Fall Creek Parkway, Indianapolis -- 6:30 p.m., Formal presentation; 7:30 to 8 p.m., Open house.

11 December: Multipurpose Room, Garfield Arts Center, Garfield Park, 2432 Conservatory Drive, Indianapolis -- 6:30 p.m., Formal presentation; 7:30 to 8 p.m., Open house.