Council opts to cost-share sewer line work

The Sundance City Council has agreed to chip in on a bill of several thousand dollars to fix a backed up sewer line, raising the question of where exactly the city’s responsibility ends when it comes to a utility issue around a property’s connection point.

Levi and Sophia Galloway attended last week’s meeting to make a polite request for assistance on a bill of $7533.

Sophia explained that, two months ago, the couple began noticing a sewer smell at their home and eventually discovered that the sewer had backed up under the building and had at that point led to standing water.

The issue was fou...