More cities are looking to join the agency after years of questioning around its transparency.

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Residents could be signing away their ability to sue a nearby landfill in a neighborhood that grappled with an asphalt factory.

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After four years of not taking enforcement actions on residents behind on their water bills, Santa Ana officials are gearing up to shut off water for delinquent households.

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While residents will still see an increase on their bill over the next five years, city leaders cut about a quarter of the projects they originally planned to lower costs on residents.

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City council members have received over 400 protest letters from residents as city staff say they need to raise rates or see critical infrastructure fail.

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After five collapses in the last three years, city and county leaders are looking to shore up an embattled coastline and study potentially shifting the rail away from the coast.

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City leaders will allow residents and businesses until May to submit written complaints despite city staff urging to increase rates for improved infrastructure to offset increased costs.

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The push to increase water rates across Orange County comes amidst inflation and crumbling infrastructure that agencies say needs to be repaired.

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Across OC, water agencies have grappled with bad finances, neglected infrastructure and coastlines of sewage. Residents are the ones being forced to pay.

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Resident’s water rates are set to go up 54% over the next five years after city council members closed wells that had a concerning number of chemicals in them.

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The city has spilled more than 2.7 million gallons of sewage since 2007. The city recently made a series of investments to overhaul its sewage system, raising residents’ rates along with it. 

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As water officials across OC hike rates due to aging infrastructure, the Garden Grove City Council called the increases a bitter pill that residents would have to swallow.

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As Tustin residents have asbestos floating in the air near their former marine air base, they’re also wrestling with finding out their groundwater is contaminated by the same base.

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While the agency avoided answering questions about their operations for years, officials are now increasing transparency after nearly folding.

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The Trabuco Canyon Water District says the spike was needed to help keep up maintenance on their equipment, while residents questioned why officials couldn’t reign in expenses.

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After voting to ditch the Orange County Power Authority in May, Surf City leaders are opting residents into the lowest renewable energy plan – arguing it will save costs for their planned exit.

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After fierce pushback from residents and business owners over proposed rate hikes that could triple bills, local water board officials asked staff to consider alternative plans.

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A public split between city leaders is generating questions over how much power one city should have at the countywide power agency.

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A regionalized approach to curbing stormwater pollution has environmentalists raising alarms about loopholes and lack of public input.

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While a wet winter spelled problems for beach pollution throughout California, Orange County’s coast managed to stay clean, even if knocked off the honor roll.

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