Rates are going up whether or not the utility is sold, city officials say.
A group of residents in Salem City, Salem County delivered a petition to the city government last week in an effort to force a referendum on the proposed sale of the municipal water and wastewater utility to a private business.
The organizers needed 250 signatures of registered voters to meet a tight deadline triggered by the Water Infrastructure Protection Act, a state measure that allows municipalities to sell public assets without getting the approval of residents. “There is a clause in the legislation that citizens have 45 days after the WIPA notice is approved and published online to file a petition protesting the sale, and if it is filed by that deadline it has to go to ballot,” Kate Delany, a senior organizer for the social justice group Food & Water Watch, who helped lead the petition drive, told NJ Advance Media on May 25, the day the group filed the petition.
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