JENKINSVILLE – Broad River Campground can amend the lawsuit it filed against the Jenkinsville Water Company to include new allegations and statements from witnesses, a judge has ruled. Sixth Circuit Judge Grace Gilchrest Knie also ruled in a separate order that campground lawsuits against the JWC, as well as board chairman Gregrey Ginyard and vice-chairman […]
Former board member blasts JWC
June 25, 2018 By
JENKINSVILLE – Jenkinsville Water Company leaders “willfully” provided false and misleading information about the water company’s ability to provide water service to its customers, according to documents filed in Broad River Campground’s ongoing lawsuit against the JWC. Also filed recently is a sworn affidavit from former JWC board member Lori Smith, who issued a blistering […]
JWC awards $645,000 contract for new well
June 7, 2018 By
JENKINSVILLE—A Sumter County plumbing company has been tapped to install a new well for the Jenkinsville Water Company. The JWC board of directors voted unanimously at its monthly meeting Monday to award the contract to Barwick Plumbing Company LLC. JWC’s contract with the Pinewood-based firm is $645,446, said Gregrey Ginyard, president of the water company. […]
Lack of transparency still dogs JWC
May 10, 2018 By
JENKINSVILLE – Transparency complaints continue to muddy the waters of the Jenkinsville Water Company. Continuing a dispute that arose during the JWC’s meeting in April, several members of the public contested a murky vote taken by the board last month. “When you vote on items, when you don’t tell us what it is, we as […]
JWC lawsuit delayed until Dec. 3
May 3, 2018 By
WINNSBORO – It’ll be at least another seven months before a lawsuit filed against the Jenkinsville Water Company is tried. A trial date certain of Dec. 3 has been scheduled in a lawsuit Broad River Campground LLC filed against the JWC in 2014. The trial had been scheduled to get underway May 7. According to […]
Trial for JWC, board set for May 7
April 26, 2018 By
JENKINSVILLE – Motions relating to pending lawsuits against the Jenkinsville Water Company and some of its officers are scheduled to be heard in a Fairfield County courtroom this week. In all, four motions will be heard on Friday, April 27. A trial date of May 7 has been set in one of the lawsuits, according […]
JWC deficits total $290K since 2011
April 5, 2018 By
JENKINSVILLE – Jenkinsville Water Company has operated with a deficit every year since 2012, with revenue shortages totaling nearly $236,000 in the past two years alone, according to a review of its federal tax returns. On its Federal 990 tax forms, which non-profits like the water company must file and are public record, the JWC […]
JWC Board breaks FOIA laws
April 5, 2018 By
JENKINSVILLE – The Jenkinsville Water Company (JWC) board of directors spent more time behind closed doors Monday evening than in open session, but it’s what happened after executive session that ignited fireworks. At its monthly meeting Monday, the JWC board of directors voted to accept three items merely dubbed “Items A, B and C” as […]
Members wary to sit on JWC board
January 18, 2018 By
JENKINSVILLE – While the Jan. 11 annual meeting of the Jenkinsville Water Company (JWC) was not the donnybrook it was the last two years, there were still a number of angry outbursts and shouting matches between the president of the Water Company Board and several of the 20 or so water company members who attended […]
JWC Faces Lawsuit Over Campground Expansion
October 10, 2014 By
JENKINSVILLE – The owner of a campground near the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station has filed a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas against the Jenkinsville Water Company (JWC) after the company turned down a request to increase the number of sites at the campground. In the suit filed Sept. 28, Glenn E. Bowens, a […]
