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Responsibility, resources and citizen recommendations: Lubbock’s plumbing issue has no simple answer
In October 2023, city staff recommended diverting costs and work for alley repairs of the lateral sewer lines that connect private homes to the public main sewer line to private plumbing contractors. The change was made in the hopes of saving the city …