ATLANTA - After weeks of warning that the city will be attracting tough on delinquent accounts, not a single Atlanta homeowner has seen their streams shut off for failure to pay.

Some Atlanta City Council members are now complaining, telling FOX 5's Morse Diggs that Atlanta must be run like a business.

Even with the flurry customers coming down to Atlanta City Hall to make arrangements for their streams bills, the number still remains at around 21,000 delinquent supplies across the city. 

Over a period of 12 days, the city never did any residential shut-offs.

Officials pronounces the amount of money owned to the city is 10s of millions of dollars.

Commissioner Mikita Browning got some skeptical looks from council members because they heard her vows to get tough with customers and begin enforcement once the calendar commanded to January.

But speaking to the City Council, Browning said her responsibility "had to hit a little bit of a pause" due to hundreds of land entering the city's F.L.O.A.T. program, which ended when the year started.

Paying customers were not gratified to hear that thousands still remain on the failure to pay shutoff list.

"I feel like everyone should be help accountable and be responsible to pay their utilities because it's not fair to the next beings who might have been in a financial hardship," on Atlanta resident told FOX 5.

The unofficial free streams practice has gone on so long that there are millions Atlanta will have to write off as simple uncollectible. Watershed officials estimate the number to be around $18 million.

While council members can plain frustration about the pace over the enforcement about these overdue bills, that's essentially all they can do.

It's up to Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and Commissioner Browning to urge the activity.