…said. “We have been trying to get a pole attachment agreement with WAPA for more than a year,” he told lawmakers. “Liberty has faced serious headwinds with respect to WAPA.” This is placing the company’s ability to meet federally-…
…communities and the western communities” were suffering due to WAPA’s difficulties in pumping water across to them. Some of those communities, Mr. Hodge said, were Clifton Hill, Bethlehem, Profit, Williams Delight, Anna’s Rest, Ca…
…next to the Richmond Power Plant in Christiansted and operated by WAPA's long-standing partner Seven Seas, has been impacted by the sargassum. Seven Seas produces potable water from sea water via reverse osmosis water plants on St…
…the loss of generation capacity at the Estate Richmond Power Plant," WAPA said. "Plant personnel are working safely to restore power to feeders as soon as possible. The major outage comes as WAPA has been doing damage control foll…
…administration has been subsidizing those costs — essentially paying WAPA the difference so that the additional cost isn't passed onto consumers. Mr. Bryan also provided an update on his major initiative to transform the USVI from…
…34th Legislature after the governor’s veto, reduced the number of WAPA Board members from nine to seven "by specifically removing two out of three of the executive cabinet members from the WAPA Board, and specifically appointing t…
…to satisfy the demand for electrical service in the district,” said WAPA Interim CEO Noel Hodge. According to WAPA, on Saturday morning, all generating units tripped offline simultaneously resulting in the district-wide electrical…
…and Public Service Commission on a bill that would limit how much WAPA would be able to charge when they estimate a bill but while Senators agreed that it was well intentioned they believed it would open the door to legally allow …
…than 500 customers experienced an electrical service interruption as WAPA personnel planted a new utility pole, installed a pole-mounted transformer, as well as primary and secondary service lines and other electrical equipment, W…
WAPA on Tuesday residents on the west end of St. Croix that its contractor, Leumas Engineering, will commence repaving streets and roadways in Frederiksted this week. Work will continue until all roads have been repaved and water …
…with what is taking place with the V.I. Water and Power Authority (WAPA), I cannot continue to be silent on what appears to be gross mismanagement and a lack of accountability. I know that this issue, like so many others in our co…
…complicating a delicate reopening for those without generators. WAPA said the power outage — deemed a "major electrical service interruption" — affected all customers on St. Thomas and St. John following the loss of generation cap…
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