By Ron Barnett
Staff Reporter

rbarnett@thepccourier.com

LIBERTY — Liberty residents will have a little more jingle in their pockets than they’ve had for the past three years, starting next month.

That’s because a $2.80 fee that has been tacked onto their monthly sewer bills will be going away in May.

Money collected through the fee has gone to pay for a $180,000 sewer line reconstruction project, according to the city.

City council voted in April 2016 to add the $2.80 surcharge for 36 months to pay for replacing 2,000 feet of sewer line during reconstruction of the intersection of S.C. Highway 93 and U.S. Highway 178, according to city figures. The surcharge went into effect in May 2016.