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(May 6, 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Atlanta’s water and sewer department is sitting on $3.9 million it should have refunded to thousands of customers.

Delinquent accounts now total more than $50 million and the department fails to collect millions more every year.

ills are based on estimates, rather than meter readings, for 10,000 accounts every month.

And, rate hikes in 2008 were based on overestimates of how much sewer work the Department of Watershed Management could pull off and the actual cost for those projects.

These are among 83 findings from a $500,000 audit of the Watershed Management Department ordered by the city council last year and presented to the council Wednesday…

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