Department of Public Utilities Hands Housatonic Water Works a Victory - The Berkshire Edge

Department of Public Utilities denies towns' request to investigate Housatonic Water Works

Great Barrington, Stockbridge and West Stockbridge were trying to speed up improvements by asking the DPU to investigate whether Housatonic Water Works is abiding by a settlement it reached with the agency last summer.

Department of Public Utilities hands Housatonic Water Works a victory - The Berkshire Edge

Berkshire County — The state’s Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has rejected a motion of enforcement made by three towns requesting that Housatonic Water Works (HWW) roll back its planned rate increases and that the department investigate the long-troubled utility. Back in January, HWW gave notice that it would delay the installation of a manganese filter system. Installation of the filtration system was part of the rate-increase plan approv…