…customers to call. The customer’s information will be collected by a WAPA employee on St. John, and will then be channeled to the appropriate divisions so restoration can be scheduled. The goal is once a customer makes contact wit…
…the territory-wide restoration percentage to 60. That leaves WAPA with 30 percent restoration to go in 8 more days, if it hopes to meet its goal of 90 percent restoration by December 24. But even with the daunting task of meeting …
…total number of restored customers continues to increase each day, WAPA said Wednesday. The restoration is estimated at approximately 57 percent territory-wide, and the utility said crews will continue to restore customers in the …
…and shipments of materials and supplies are on island to augment WAPA’s restoration efforts in both districts. On St. Thomas Thursday, additional customers in Frenchtown and Hull Bay were energized while other crews continued reco…
…of a transmission feeder that will bring electrical service to the WAPA East End substation, and subsequently to customers on St. John as well as the Red Hook and Nazareth areas of St. Thomas. On St. John, additional poles were pl…
…poles to UVI on Feeder 6A as well as to Peterborg on Feeder 8B. WAPA and its contractors are working to energize sections of Feeders 8A and 8B this week. Over the weekend, crews completed repairs and energized the Ron de Lugo Fede…
…Islands Water and Power Authority. Mrs. Hansen says sources inside WAPA has relayed to her that WAPA has reverted back to using oil to provide electricity to the territory, because it owes the propane supplier $20 million and has …
…the territorial hospitals for electrical and potable water services, WAPA Executive Director Julio A. Rhymer told the semiautonomous entity's board during a Thursday meeting. The outstanding total, $22.7 million, represents more t…
…the entire island district and represented loss of revenue for WAPA,” Mr. Rhymer said. He noted that two distinct events occurred which led to the district-wide service interruption of April 10: Feeder 7A experienced a fault in th…
…and impacted shoreline is nearing completion,” said Julio Rhymer, WAPA acting chief executive officer. He added that the internal investigation into the cause of the spill is more than 25 percent complete. WAPA personnel and contr…
…in crashed into a utility pole on Solberg road here, a press release WAPA issued late Tuesday has revealed. The truck experienced an apparent malfunction before striking a pole, flipping and coming to rest on its side just after 6…
…Early Tuesday morning, the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA) was notified that a string of street lights along the western lane of St. Croix’s Melvin Evans Highway, between Williams Delight and Carlton, had been vand…
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