Costs for outage at Ridgewood facility keep rising
WEDNESDAY MARCH 12, 2014, 9:45 AM
BY DARIUS AMOS
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
The previously approved spending plan created for emergency repairs at Ridgewood’s water pollution control plant has ballooned to nearly $24,000 – rising almost $9,000 above the costs that were estimated in January. The increasing price tag as well as discrepancies in vendor invoicing have drawn recent criticism from members of the Village Council as well as local taxpayers.
Top public works officials said a backup generator at the facility had been damaged and failed to start during a widespread power outage on New Year’s Eve. As a result, personnel manually diverted the incoming water flow to a primary clarifier, where it was held.
According to plant officials, power was restored moments before the untreated sewage would have been released into the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook.
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$23,000 down the toilet because of management incompetence and no one even gets a slap on the wrist. If this were a private sector operation the person responsible would have been fired. Did you get that Roberta?
Just firing somebody doesn’t always solve a problem. Give Roberta a chance to view all the problems stacked on her desk there. She will make appropriate solutions.
Can the village do anything right any more?
Just firing someone does not always solve a problem, true. But there never seem to be any repercussions for our highly paid staff who make expensive, neglectful errors. Maybe if action were taken against incompetence, others would be more diligent about doing their jobs more diligently.
Take it out of Rutishauser’s pay. Incompetence and criminal negligence. What else in town needs to be looked at? Do it now.
Rutishauser has lied to the council there was never a run scheduled for the generator and the statement that it wasn’t done because of an employee out on injury more smokescreen.