It's time for Barrington to begin thinking about divesting itself from Bristol / Warren cronyism at BCWA, and linking up with East Providence.
Our water is now 100% from Scituate, the backup will come via East Providence, and the pipeline goes right past our pumping station.
There are few technical problems with this arrangement, and East Providence is a much better run water authority with rates about 40% less than BCWA's
http://www.wrb.ri.gov/data_ratesurvey/Water_Rates_Survey_2010.pdf
The big problem will be in the future infrastructure warts facing Bristol and Warren that BCWA will expect Barrington residents to subsidize, and have subsidized in the past.
Consider that the recent Bristol Hope Street project to put in new residential water hookups to the historic homes was paid in part by Barrington residents. Why should Barrington residents be sharing in such costs? These Bristol Warren subsidies will get much worse in the future.
And that $5 million dollar cost overrun in 1998 on the East Bay Pipeline was due in large part to the Bristol directors, and buried without an audit.
BCWA now has their Bristol attorney to provide cover to these warts.
BCWA has been, and will always be, crony central for Bristol and Warren local politics. Barrington needs to find a new partner before things get really out of hand.
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