Hometown News
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Weirton Area Water Board was ordered Friday to submit within 90 days a series of action plans to the Public Service Commission of West Virginia to address severe water problems and line leakages in the Northern Panhandle city’s system.
The city was told to submit actions plans detailing how it will replace cast iron and galvanized pipe over the next five years; how it will define a leak detection and repair program; how it will achieve a water loss percentage of 15 percent or less; how it will resolve its violations of Bureau for Public Health standards; and that it have a process in place to provide alerts to customers via both text messages and email.
The Commission said in a 13-page order it would also require for each new customer, and for all the system’s customers once a year, that the board shall include in its bills a list of the many modes of access to information the customers will have during major outages or crises, including a number customers can contact to answer question during a crisis.
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