Mingo Messenger
The Public Service Commission of West Virginia has ordered the Mingo County Public Service District (PSD) to submit a 10-point corrective action plan to address customer complaints and make an adjustment to one of its rates.
The order, conveyed Nov. 5, stopped short of declaring the Mingo County PSD a failing or distressed agency, nor did the PSC appoint a receiver to operate it.
According to PSC officials, several hundred customers suffered loss of water because the system could not adequately treat water taken from the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.
The 4,289-customer system, with its plant based in Naugatuck, could not handle the water cleaning process because its sediment tanks were full, PSC officials said.
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