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September 20, 2006
Pawtucket Water Supply Board fined for lax reporting
The Pawtucket Water Supply Board (PWSB) has been fined $3,090 by the Rhode Island Department of Health stemming from incidents occuring late June and again over the Fourth of July weekend involving the lack of reporting of coliform bacteria that was found, which was not a health hazard.
Allen Champagne, water quality supervisor, said if a test comes up positive, followup samples must be gathered within 24 hours, "up and down stream," for further testing. Out of 240 to 260 samples taken per month, perhaps 5 percent come back positive for monitored substances but usually turn up harmless in later sampling, Champagne said.
An unnamed part-time union lab technician of Earth Tech, PSWB vendor, was blamed in the incidents and removed from that job, an action Earth Tech and PWSB officials said they expected will land in arbitration, as reported by The Pawtucket Times.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at September 20, 2006 09:33 PM
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