FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2003.
Regulated Industries Commission demands
urgent reports from WASA and T&TEC.
THE Regulated Industries Commission (RIC) has given the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) and the Water and Sewerage Authority until Monday and Tuesday coming, respectively to submit detailed reports on what caused serious service failures by both utilities over the last 2-3 weeks.
Invoking its legislated authority as sole regulator of T&TEC and WASA, the Commission, through its Chairman, Mr. Dennis Pantin, has had letters despatched to both utilities, requiring information about corrective measures and preventive action being taken by them.
The RIC letters referred to the explosion at T&TEC's Rio Claro Substation, and the contamination of water supply at WASA's Caroni Arena Treatment Plant, which temporarily deprived more than 100,000 consumers of power and water.
The RIC is carrying out its own independent investigation of the water contamination, and has been taking samples from consumers for testing by a laboratory external to WASA.
The RIC demand for details of these unplanned service disruptions, with possible consequences for compensation, is in keeping with the regulatory procedure adopted in its guaranteed standards of service for the utilities.
Guaranteed and overall standards of service for WASA and T&TEC, published earlier this year, are in the final stages of implementation.
H. S. Atwal
Executive Director
REGULATED INDUSTRIES COMMISSION
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