Water Bureau Chief Explains Rate Discrepancy

September 15, 2011 at 9:23 am PDT

Portland blogger Jack Bogdanski unearthed a tantalizing piece of information last week—an obscure firm named Carollo Engineers is the Portland Water Bureau's second largest customer by volume but pays a only a small fraction per gallon of the rate other large users pay.

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