“Most of them were returned back with additional information,” said U.S. Public Health Officer Captain Robert Lorenz who was hired as CUC chief engineer for the water and wastewater division.
But he noted though the specific percentage rate of returned compliance reports could not be determined at this time.
CUC Deputy Director for Water and Wastewater Bruce Megarr said they submitted at least 18 tasks under the stipulated orders. Most of them have 90 to 180 days of deliverables.
Some tasks were completely complied, including the hiring of a full time drinking water and wastewater division manager, chief engineer, and full time drinking water and wastewater associate engineer, submission of protocols for developing consumer confidence reports, protocols for ensuring compliance with 40 CFR 141 public notices, he said.
Lorenz said in sending additional information the EPA also set another time frame for CUC to comply.
After complying with the additional information within the new time frame, the EPA will then review to determine if CUC met their expectations.
Lorenz said they submitted the compliance reports on water meter installation, reading and billing program to the EPA.
CUC is required to complete the installation of new meters within a year from March 11, 2009.
About 4,500 defective water meters were installed in 2004 and 2005. They were retrieved and replaced by Severn Trent Service.
Lorenz said they are hoping to complete installing new meters by March 2010.
They already replaced and installed 2,200 new meters and 2,000 more meters are scheduled to arrive in the island. He said they could install all meters within four months time.
Lorenz said the first submission of their report on stipulated order on water meter installation, reading and billing program was not satisfactory.
“They see different things on what we turning in, they have different interpretation to do what the deliverables,” he said, citing an example of their chlorine contract which EPA wants to see the details, including the calculation to show how much chlorine needed in the island.
