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$151,000 MSD study is called unnecessary
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch found that "a private lawyer for the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District went outside agency channels to hire a local company for an erosion and asbestos study, then covered the $151,000 cost by including it among his firm's legal bills to the district. The now-defunct company had no track record in the field of study. Ratepayers ended up paying seven to 15 times what a district engineer says the study should have cost, and according to some MSD officials, the study wasn't needed to begin with.
Tags: Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; MSD; St. Louis; Charles E. Polk; sewer district; state bidding; public funds; Nu-Star Distribution; Maline Creek watershed
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Down the Drain
This article profiles, Tom Sullivan, private citizen who has been investigating the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Sullivan says that the agency is corrupt and that its administrators have been gathering information on him for years.
Tags: Tom Sullivan; Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; corruption; Missouri