Raleigh Municipal Problems For more than four years, the NRF upstream office has been investigating (and working to fix) problems discovered at Raleighs sewage treatment plant and more recently Raleighs Water Treatment Plant. Recently, one of our members recently discovered RPU had begun to withhold potentially damaging information from their monthly reports, information that had previously been available to the public. NC Division of Water Quality files also revealed the state is now seriously considering reopening Raleighs Water Treatment Plant permit for review, which is highly unusual. In May of 2006, the N&O also reported that for more than six years Raleigh Utilities Director Dale Crisp withheld information from city leaders that Raleighs $15 million dollar ozone systeman important treatment process for clean drinking waterwas never installed correctly, has never properly worked and may never work properly with out significant and costly repairs. Raleigh rate payers will likely have to accept that they financed a $15 million dollar boondoggle or pay millions more to fix the failed ozone system. Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker recently contacted NRF to inform us that the Raleigh City Council has directed the City Attorneys office to conduct its own investigation of problems at the water treatment plant. NRF remains committed to eliminating this discharge to Falls Lake.