Healy's happy, why aren't you?
Source: Earl Morgan, Jersey Journal (NJ), Tuesday, March 06, 2007
...... Meanwhile, United Water won the contract to run the system and problems cropped up almost immediately. Homeowners complained to The Jersey Journal about excessive billing, such as the retired school teacher who was twice hit with $9,000 water bills for just one quarter. Surprise surprise, it turns out she didn't use a lake's worth of water over those few months, but rather it was a billing error. It wasn't the only one, either.
It remains to be seen if United Water will win the next contract or if another firm will get the job. But there have been suggestions from some city officials that restoring the Jersey City Water Department might be the best solution. At least it would mean no longer paying $20 million a year to United Water.