Title
Response to Highland Park's March 4, 2026, Request for Decision on an "interim share change" in CSO charges per Wastewater Disposal Services Contract between GLWA and Highland Park
Body
Agenda of: March 11, 2026
Item No.: 2026-103
Amount: N/A
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Suzanne R. Coffey, P.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: March 11, 2026
RE: Response to Highland Park's March 4, 2026, Request for Decision on an "interim share change" in CSO charges per Wastewater Disposal Services Contract between GLWA and Highland Park
MOTION
Upon recommendation of William M. Wolfson, Interim General Counsel, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), Receives and files the March 4, 2026, City of Highland Park's, "Request for Decision on an "interim share change" in CSO charges per Wastewater Disposal Services Contract between GLWA and Highland Park" (the Request), declines at this time to take further action on the Request; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
In 1999, as a part of the federal case of the United States of America v City of Detroit, et al., Case No 77-71100, (ED Mich), the Court entered an order approving a rate settlement agreement, often referred to as the 1999 Rate Settlement Agreement, which included an agreed allocation of capital costs incurred in the operation and maintenance of wet weather facilities (each, a Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) facility) to alleviate CSOs. In oversimplified terms, the 1999 Rate Settlement Agreement established two CSO facility cost pools, one consisting of the City of Detroit, responsible for 83% of the CSO facility charges, and the other consisting of all other suburban customers, including Highland Park, that was responsible for 17% of the CSO facility charges. Subsequent orders of the Cou...
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