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treme dissatisfaction with our testing and operations procedures at the plant in the recent past.”
Mr. Swindler said in order to pay for the contract with ESS the WSA would be pulling from longterm funds established to cover plant depreciation. He said such funds were in passbook accounts.
He said the WSA was not planning on an “immediate rate hike.” First, he said, the WSA needs to have time to establish a “working system, to get a handle on what our expenses will be.”
Mr. Swindler said the WSA is awaiting a ,formal report from the SWCB before taking final action on Mr. Falls’s employment.
Kathleen O’Connell, with the SWCB Richmond office, said that an inspection of the plant in May showed a “violation of the total suspended solids effluent limit... The plant was not being supervised or operated in a manner that would have prevented the
See WSA, Page A-3
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