The US Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new standards to try to keep waterways cleaner, including the Chesapeake Bay.
The pollution diet, as it's called, would aim to remove more nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment.
New standards could impact the Binghamton Johnson City Joint Sewage Treatment Plant by forcing it to comply with the reduction.
And, as a result would have to spend more money to do so.
That would be passed on to users.
The treatment plant is also one of the largest in the chesapeake bay region and is concerned the EPA could try to make an example of it with new regulations.
It wants local leaders to attend an EPA public informational meeting Tuesday December first from two until four in the afternoon at the Broome County Public Library.
