WAPA Resumes Disconnection Procedures For Delinquent Accounts Beginning This Month
- Staff
- November 26, 2018
As the Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority works to return all of its facilities to the pre-storm operational levels, and while it continues efforts to rebuild a more efficient, resilient and reliable electrical system for the future, the public is advised that WAPA will resume its normal disconnection procedures for non-payment, beginning with bills issued this month, WAPA said Monday. “The issuance of bills in November marks the resumption of 30-day billing – the issuance of an electrical bill every 30 days. WAPA has now resumed its normal billing practices which also includes disconnection of service for non-payment. WAPA has not disconnected customers for non-payment since last year’s hurricanes,” said WAPA Executive Director Lawrence J. Kupfer. In explaining the disconnection policy, Mr. Kupfer noted that a bill issued on November 6th is due twenty days later, on November 26. That bill becomes delinquent on November 27 and a late notice is issued the following day. If not pai...
