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New Haven mayoral letter, DEEP mediation spotlight dispute over cleanup standard at English Station
Summary
At a PURA evidentiary hearing on UI’s rate reconsideration, company witnesses and DEEP described ongoing mediation about the cleanup standard for the English Station site; the New Haven mayor’s letter opposes partial remediation and calls for industrial/commercial cleanup, while UI says remediation outside the main plant has approvals and more work remains inside the building.
Interim Commissioner Janice Beecher presided over an evidentiary hearing at the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on UI’s petition for reconsideration of its 2024 rate decision, during which discussion of remediation at the English Station site took center stage.
The dispute focuses on what cleanup standard applies to different parts of the site and how that standard affected remediation progress and schedule. DEEP attorneys and UI remediation witnesses described a complex history: UI gained access under a partial consent order in about August 2016 and then discovered unsafe conditions inside the main power plant building that delayed interior investigation. Company witnesses said substantial field work has been completed outside the building, including collection of thousands of samples, demolition of an outlying structure and removal of “over 10,000 tons of regulated solid waste” and thousands of…
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