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New water renewal director outlines DEQ consent‑order work, ammonia compliance plan and staffing shortfalls
Summary
Matt Elling House, Hopewell’s director of water renewal, told council the utility is advancing deferred maintenance, preparing an ammonia evaluation and a compliance plan tied to a DEQ consent order now at public notice, and is working to fill roughly 10 of 56 full‑time vacancies while several capital projects proceed.
Matt Elling House, director of water renewal, told the Hopewell City Council that his new office is moving to address years of deferred maintenance, comply with more stringent permit limits and finish capital upgrades tied to a recent DEQ consent order.
House said the department is conducting an ammonia evaluation and preparing studies that will form a compliance schedule the city can submit to extend its timetable for meeting the stricter standard. "PEQ is providing us the ability to extend that compliance schedule with a couple of studies and some sort of detailed plan," he said, and added that the Q plan is due at the end of this year.
House outlined recent capital work that has already been…
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