…areas from taking precautionary measures.” Meanwhile, Don Gregoire, WAPA’s director of Water Distribution, told the listening audience that of the 66 samples initially tested, 35 showed high levels of lead, reaching 20,000 parts p…
…Act 8472, which removed all but one cabinet-level appointee from WAPA’s board, and imposed qualification requirements for the now-diminished numbers of board members, was a valid and legal exercise of the Legislature’s authority. …
…Legislature over the composition of the Water and Power Authority (WAPA) governing board is not over. Earlier this month, the Superior Court ruled that a law which eliminated two Cabinet-level positions from the board and imposed …
…is estimated to have reduced water loss by one million gallons, and WAPA anticipates millions of dollars in monthly savings once it is fully complete. The board also approved an extension of the Randolph Harley Power Plant New Gen…
Ernice Gilbert and Elisha George · January 24, 2023
…line replacements, all propelled by the Water and Power Authority (WAPA). The problems with WAPA itself also have to be addressed, the governor noted, as he committed to fixing the issues with the company in his second term and wo…
…hemorrhaging." Mr. Ottley said the company has been in talks with WAPA to run a new line to the WICO property. “We have expressed to WAPA the necessity to do this line and we anticipate to have a meeting with them this week to fin…
…on the territory’s recovery from the 2017 hurricanes Regarding WAPA, the authority is said to be in negotiations with its propane supplier, Vitol, and other suppliers following Vitol's suspension of propane fuel to the territory e…
…you would be disgusted,” he said. In November last year, the head of WAPA’s corporate communications department reportedly committed suicide, an incident that Mr. Smith referenced while making his plea for customers to stop insult…
…Property and Procurement Commissioner Anthony Thomas has instructed WAPA Acting Executive Director Noel Hodge to develop a maintenance cost breakdown for all the engines at the power plants so that funding could be identified and …
…rectified and power fully restored at about 6:05 p.m. the same day, WAPA said Sunday. In responses to the Consortium, the authority said the outage started at about 1:30 p.m. caused by "a substantial loss of generation capacity at…
…electrical substation and later, compromised primary service lines, WAPA said in a release. The outage began shortly before 6 a.m. and all customers were restored at 2:30 p.m. The Donald Francois electrical substation in Long Bay …
…St. Thomas–St. John district at approximately 11:20 a.m. on Friday. WAPA said while it will take a few days to fully determine and understand the cause of the outage, authority officials suspect that a large generating unit trippe…
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