{"id":7727,"date":"2017-01-30T11:09:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T16:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcdev3.com\/mwra\/auditors-report-municipal-water-infrastructure-severely-underfunded\/"},"modified":"2017-01-30T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T16:09:37","slug":"auditors-report-municipal-water-infrastructure-severely-underfunded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/auditors-report-municipal-water-infrastructure-severely-underfunded\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditor&#8217;s Report: Municipal Water Infrastructure Severely Underfunded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;14&#8243; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;] <a class=\"view fancybox-pdf\" title=\"Auditor's Report Press Release\" href=\"http:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/auditor-report-press-release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3630 noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray;\" src=\"http:\/\/mwraadvisoryboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/auditor-report-press-release-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Auditor's Report Press Release\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;14&#8243; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90za3z66zukz90zm0f7z69z6ryz122zz79z5z83z6wt4g1z74zvz68zspkz75z\">In a January 2017 report, MA Auditor Suzanne Bump called for a<\/span> <span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90za3z66zukz90zm0f7z69z6ryz122zz79z5z83z6wt4g1z74zvz68zspkz75z h-ldquo\">\u201c<\/span><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90za3z66zukz90zm0f7z69z6ryz122zz79z5z83z6wt4g1z74zvz68zspkz75z\">more holistic\u201d approach to meeting water infrastructure needs in the Commonwealth. The study found that communities will have <strong>unmet spending needs of upwards of $17.8 billion over the next 20 years<\/strong>, and called for a combination of both state and federal funds. The Auditor advocated for primacy, stating that MassDEP should assume responsibility over NPDES permitting and regulations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span class=\" author-d-iz88z86z86za0dz67zz78zz78zz74zz68zjz80zz71z9iz90za3z66zukz90zm0f7z69z6ryz122zz79z5z83z6wt4g1z74zvz68zspkz75z\">Find the full report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/auditor\/news-and-updates\/press-releases-2017\/auditor-bump-calls-for-holistic-approach-to-meeting-mun.html\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a January 2017 report, MA Auditor Suzanne Bump called for a \u201cmore holistic\u201d approach to meeting water infrastructure needs in the Commonwealth. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":7728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcdev3.com\/mwra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}