Please distinguish between the Board and the staff. The Board sets the rates among other decisions. The staff takes in all the information, public comment, does the day to day work, nasty, dirty, filthy work by the way. This particular board seems quite interested in hand-outs to their relatives and developer friends. Don't like it? Talk to the county commissioners who appoint them. Don't punish the staff. As for the part-time lawyer, if you believe that than I assume you believe everything published in the Baynet. The Baynet has perpetuated that myth. The Baynet has made a nice profit off of the crap that their guy, who sells ad space on that rag, AND is the metcom chair helps churn up for them.
The system you refer to, if it was built in the 50s was probably built by the developer at the time then taken over, as the law lays out, by Metcom. Come to a board meeting and ask why the Board has not made it a capital project for improvement.
One response may be that there is not funding for it and get ready to hear more and more of that. If you haven't heard, President Trump is not interested in the environment. Most of the federal funding for projects like this come out of the very programs that Trump is interested in cutting