Complaint cites the utility’s ‘failure to . . . promote its customers’ health and safety’
By Jake Kincaid | PinalCentral
The Arizona Corporation Commission has refused to delay taking action on Johnson Utilities.
In a lengthy meeting Tuesday, the ACC discussed its ongoing investigation into the utility and the possibility of filing an order to show cause, and the potential appointment of an interim manager.
What began as a rate case, with the utility seeking to raise its rates for customers, has become a full blown investigation into billing issues, water quality, wastewater facility issues and related health and safety issues.
The commission directed staff to file an order to show cause no later than Thursday. That would be a court order that requires a subject, in this case Johnson Utilities, to justify or prove something in a hearing.
