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HB 1379 goes to the House Energy and Utilities Subcommittee this Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, at 12:30 pm.

Below are the email addresses of all the committee members. Please encourage them to support HB 1379.

Also, encourage your District Senator and Representative to attend this meeting and ask for its passage.

You can send one email (drag, copy and paste all email addresses into address line of a “new” email you’re going to send), or you can click on each individual address and send one at a time.

Ben.Albritton@myfloridahouse.gov
Lori.Berman@myfloridahouse.gov
Jeff.Clemens@myfloridahouse.gov
Janet.Cruz@myfloridahouse.gov
Daniel.Davis@myfloridahouse.gov
Shawn.Harrison@myfloridahouse.gov
Clay.Ingram@myfloridahouse.gov
George.Moraitis@myfloridahouse.gov
Peter.Nehr@myfloridahouse.gov
Kathleen.Passidomo@myfloridahouse.gov
Scott.Plakon@myfloridahouse.gov
Elizabeth.Porter@myfloridahouse.gov
Michelle.Rehwinkel@myfloridahouse.gov
Greg.Steube@myfloridahouse.gov
Alan.Williams@myfloridahouse.gov

Thanks for your support.

The FPSC General Counsel, Curt Kiser, has been notified of the statements made by his predesessor, Booter Imhoff, regarding the Commission’s ability to deny the Aqua Utilities rate case.   In 2009, Mr. Imhoff advised the Commissioners that they had the authority to deny a rate case, if the quality of service was found to be “inefficient”.

The Commissioners downgraded Aqua’s quality of service from “satisfactory” to “marginal”, in May of 2011.   Since then, the Commissioners had to attend formal customer hearings, where they got more than an earful of the awful quality of service Aqua has been subjecting its customers to.

In addition, these Commissioners were presented with an enormous amount of well-documented testimony at the Technical Hearing held this past November.   Testimony that Aqua’s counsel had difficulty refuting.

Inefficient quality of service has been soundly established, and it should be downgraded, even further, to “unsatisfactory”.

It won’t come as a surpise, if the FPSC Staff offers a ‘pro-Aqua’ recommendation to the Commissioners.  Their “don’t ask – don’t tell” attitude has been extremely detrimental when it comes to protecting the customers.   Voluntarily offering important information to the Commissioners seems to have lost its appeal.  Keeping the Commissioners in the dark is a bad policy.

The final order for the current Aqua rate case will be decided on February 14th.  Hopefully, General Counsel Kiser will have no difficulty in bringing to light the vast expanse of the Commission’s ”great discretion”, and its authority to deny a rate case, if the quality of service is inefficient (North Florida Water v. Bevis).

Another disgraceful act of customer “dis-service” by Aqua America and its subsidiary in North Caroline.

See link below for full article.

http://www.foxcharlotte.com/news/nc-news/Aqua-North-Carolina-Gets-Paid-Still-Cuts-Sewer-Service-138013778.html

After a roughly 30-minute presentation to Littlestown Borough Council members delivered by Keith Gabage, senior director of corporate development for Aqua America, wanting to make an offer to buy Littlestown’s water system, it was evident that it likely wasn’t for sale.

Click below for full story

BRYN MAWR, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Aqua America, Inc. (NYSE: WTR) announced today an agreement with American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) to purchase all of American Water’s regulated operations in Ohio and to simultaneously sell Aqua’s regulated operations in New York to American Water. Both companies are now the largest investor-owned water utilities in each of the two respective states.

For the full story click the link below:

“If (Aqua Indiana) cannot provide water to its customers adequate for the purposes reasonably expected by its customers, it is this commission’s responsibility to speak directly to the utility’s management, through our orders, to send a message that service must improve,” the order said.

To read the full article click the link below:

To watch the video of the hearing and customer testimony click on the link below when the video page comes up scroll down to item 17 and that is the start of the Aqua Agenda Conference.

The word is finally reaching the investment world of the Aqua America (WTR) horror stories.

The iStockAnalyst report (see link below) sheds some light on what Aqua’s Florida customers are up against.

Beware America! This water-profiteer could be negotiating an acquisition in your neighborhood, at this very moment.

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewnewspaged/articleid/5003543/pageid/1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 19, 2010

SCHUMER CALLS FOR FEDERAL GAO INVESTIGATION OF COMPANY THAT HIKED NASSAU COUNTY WATER RATES; QUESTIONS COMPANY’S USE OF FEDERAL DOLLARS FOR IMPROVEMENTS WHILE PASSING ON DOUBLE DIGIT RATE HIKES AND ‘SURCHARGES’ TO CONSUMERS

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Port Richey, Pasco County, FL

The boil water advisory issued by Aqua Utilities Florida (Aqua) for its customers in the Jasmine Lakes Water System has been lifted effective Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Acceptable bacteria sample results were obtained from sets of water samples collected from the well on April 15, 16, and 19, 2010.

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