MARENGO – Residents and small businesses soon will see cheaper wastewater bills. The City Council on Monday unanimously approved a temporary rate cut while work is suspended on expansion of the city’s wastewater treatment plant.

Council members last year doubled sewer rates for residential and commercial users to pay for Marengo’s $12 million wastewater plant upgrade northeast of the existing plant along Route 23 near the Kishwaukee
River.

But the city halted construction last month after officials were advised that a buried landfill on site would add cost to the
project.