Calumet Park exits group seeking to get water via Hammond

As a group of Southland towns says it is closing in on a deal to get Lake Michigan water from Hammond instead of Chicago, one of its members has withdrawn.

Members of the South Suburban Joint Area Water Agency recently voted 6 to 1 to allow Calumet Park to withdraw, six months after it submitted its request.

Fed up with Chicago’s rising water rates, the group formed in 2012 and borrowed $5.5 million to find out what it would cost to create their own pipeline system and obtain Lake Michigan water from Hammond…Please click here to read  Susan Lafferty’s story in the Southtown Star.