Apr 17, 2013 2 min read

Brownsville Municipal Authority is seeking more than $80,000 from a neighboring municipality in Washington County it claims violated a sewage service agreement to pay for expansions to a wastewater treatment facility.

Washington County President Judge Debbie O’Dell Seneca has scheduled a hearing on Brownsville’s claim against West Brownsville and its municipal authority for 11 a.m. June 25, court records show.

Brownsville claims in the record West Brownsville agreed in December 1968 to pay the Brownsville authority $23,000 for the expansions, plus interest at a rate of 5.95 percent a year.

The agreement also called for West Brownsville to pay the interest up until the day the municipality tapped into Brownsville’s sewers or constructed its own wastewater facilities to close the financing arrangement.

Instead, West Brownsville elected to join in the incorporation of the Center-West Joint Sewer Authority, which began constructing its lines in 2011, the record states.

Brownsville contends West Brownsville is in debt to the authority $81,170 through May 24, 2011.

West Brownsville has argued that Brownsville has not been capable of handling its sewage and industrial waste.

Uniontown attorney Ernest DeHaas, who represents Brownsville, claims the system is capable of serving West Brownsville, the record shows.

It was not immediately known who is representing West Brownsville.