After enduring raw sewage spills and water pressure woes, former Johnson Utilities customers now face costs
by Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic
On Christmas Eve in 2007, a resident in a San Tan Valley neighborhood called the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality to report a major problem: Raw sewage was gushing out of a manhole cover by his house, flowing down the road between houses and into a nearby wash.
When inspectors arrived to investigate several days later, they noted a trail of toilet paper that stretched from the sewer cover into Queen Creek, a normally dry wash.
The spill in a residential area wasn’t the first for developer George Johnson’s sewer and water company, and it would not be the last.
