Never say die: MSD won’t give up on unpaid sewer bills, even on vacant properties

MSD’s newly aggressive approach to collect on unpaid sewer bills follows a Missouri Court of Appeals ruling in 2021. The court allowed public sewer districts like MSD to keep unpaid bills as liens on a property even if those properties are foreclosed by the government for unpaid taxes, a process meant to clear land of past debts to make it easier for a new owner to put the property back into productive use.