The Chattanooga City Council is expected to vote tonight on a resolution to try to aggressively collect as much of $22 million in outstanding water quality fees as possible.
“It’s going to be like pulling teeth,” Mayor Ron Littlefield told council members. “The big ones, of course, are the state and federal government.”
More than $22 million in water quality, or stormwater, fees are owed to the city since 1993. Statute of limitations say the city can only collect from six years out, officials said.
Records show that, since 2005, more than $5 million is owed to the city.
For more information, read tomorrow’s edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.