HD89 - Operation of Small Private Investor-Owned Water Systems (HJR 652)

  • Published: 1994
  • Author: State Water Commission
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 652 (Regular Session, 1993)

Executive Summary:
The 1993 Session of the General Assembly passed HJR 652, which requested the State Water Commission to study the operation of small private investor-owned and homeowner association-operated public water systems (see Appendix A). The Commission is charged with (i) analyzing component expenses of the overall costs of providing drinking water, including the costs associated with financing, capital improvement, maintenance, monitoring and testing; (ii) examining ways to ensure that owners operating small systems are financially and technically capable of operating such systems; and (iii) determining what alternatives should be available to customers in instances of abandonment by the owner or operator, or where the operator fails to provide safe drinking water to customers.