Ocean Pines residents will not see their sewer bills go up after all.
The Maryland Department of the Environment reversed an earlier decision that would have hiked sewer bills by $15 next month.
Jennifer Savage, Worcester County enterprise fund controller, told the Salisbury Daily Times that officials were surprised.
This spring state officials told the County that the Ocean Pines Sanitary Service area would not be exempt from Maryland’s annual Bay Restoration Fee as it has been in the past.
But Savage said because the Ocean Pines plant had met the exemption for the requirements two out of the last three years and was still complying this year it had been given an exemption
