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Torres meets with CUC engineers on water priorities
Before getting a reverse osmosis, or RO, system to provide desalinized drinking water to island residents, Gov. Ralph DLG Torres wants to focus what “we’ve been paying for” due to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp.’s water leaks problem
CUC has reported water losses at around 70 percent. They reportedly lose half of every gallon of water they pump out.
Torres met with CUC water division engineers on Wednesday to talk “priorities.”
Torres said he echoed his concerns for that leak percentage, “unaccounted for” accounts, tampering with accounts, and another critical point, billings, that may have been overcharged or undercharged.
“So they will be coming in and I will be appropriating and reprogramming funds to work with hiring new teams, more teams to go out in the community and monitor leaks,” he said.
Second, Torres wants to have meters that work.
So they can charge “every resident appropriately and accordingly” and third, make sure those accounts are up to date within the billing department.
“I do not want any billing or any entity to overcharge. All I ask is that they charge every consumer appropriately,” Torres said.
Torres emphasized he is in support of an RO system but not until “we address our current issue whether it’s leak, unaccounted for accounts, or the billing department itself.”
“Until we have a solid approach, the RO system will come after,” he said.
