The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is proposing to tackle flooding and erosion by adding a new charge to the bill of every customer, including nonprofit entities and those with septic systems.
The MSD Board of Trustees voted unanimously in December to place Proposition S for Stormwater on the ballot in the election Tuesday, April 2.
The sewer district and wastewater utility will hold a series of public meetings in advance of the vote, starting in south county. The first public information session will be held at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, at The Pavilion at Lemay, 305 Gregg Road in Jefferson Barracks Park. Other meetings will be held in Chesterfield, Clayton, Ballwin and Ferguson.
If voters approve the measure, MSD would take on a new service that it doesn’t cover now, fixing flooding and erosion problems caused by stormwater runoff in its geographic footprint of St. Louis County and St. Louis city.