Providing testimony regarding the Bovoni landfill fire to the Committee on Health, Hospitals, V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency Director Daryl Jaschen said the effort is estimated to have cost the
Authorities responding to lead and copper contamination in the St. Croix water system are now advising that the island’s residents avoid brushing their teeth with water from that system.
V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Director Daryl Jaschen shed light on the nature and extent of federal assistance made available over the weekend during a weekly briefing on Monday.
Gov. Albert Bryan Jr. has formally requested a Presidential Disaster Declaration from President Biden to secure federal assistance in the territory’s efforts to fix St. Croix’s drinking water system.