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Thousands Without Water In Mingo County; State Investigation Begins

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Thousands of Mingo County residents are without water, and some have been since mid-January, prompting an investigation by the West Virginia Public Service Commission (PSC).

According to a press release from the PSC, a staff petition filed on Jan. 15 said approximately 600 customers experienced long outages this month in Mingo County.

On Saturday the Department of Health (DH) announced that 2,100 customers were without water in Mingo County’s Public Service District due to complications in the system’s sediment basin exacerbated by recent freezing temperatures.

The DH and the Department of Homeland Security have partnered with local officials and are working to resolve the issue.

These agencies also provided an unspecified number of pallets of bottled water to residents, according to the release.

Following the outage, the West Virginia PSC announced they opened a general investigation into the Mingo County PSD.