Radioactive Pollutants in Jenkinsville Well JENKINSVILLE – For the third time in four years, the Jenkinsville Water Company is bumping up against the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), this time for excessive radium and gross alpha contaminants in well number 15, on Clowney Road. DHEC issued a Notice of Violation to the […]
Water Company Audit Shows Improvements
October 19, 2012 By
The Jenkinsville Water Company disseminated to its shareholders their 2011 financial audit at their Oct. 1 board meeting. The report, prepared by Columbia CPA V.R. McConnell and dated Dec. 31, 2011, shows the company’s net assets at $1,685,878 (down from $1,702,950 in 2010) with revenues falling $153 short of expenses at year’s end. The report […]
Water Co. Head Questioned on Violation
August 10, 2012 By
The Jenkinsville Water Company held their monthly board meeting Monday night and shared their most recent operations updates with the public, particularly the recent contamination violations discovered by Data Resource Laboratory earlier in July. Jenkinsville Mayor and Board President Gregrey Ginyard led the update during the “Open discussion for customers /visitors” agenda item, where Department […]
Water Boil Alert Issued Late
August 3, 2012 By
A boil water notice issued by the Jenkinsville Water Company last month was late in coming, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) said last week, putting the public at a potential health risk and the company in jeopardy of possible penalties. The Jenkinsville Water Company issued the boil advisory July 9 after […]
JWC Lifts Water Boil Alert
July 24, 2012 By
A boil water advisory, issued July 9 for customers of the Jenkinsville Water Company, was lifted last week after a second round of tests revealed samples containing E. coli bacteria came from a private well and not the company’s system, company president Gregrey Ginyard said. Ginyard said the original sample came from a home in […]
Boil Water Advisory Issued after DHEC Test of Jenkinsville Water
July 9, 2012 By
The Jenkinsville Water Company issued a boil water advisory for all of its approximately 780 customers Monday after a water test by the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) found E. coli bacteria present in water sampled from a home serviced by the company, DHEC said. Gregrey Ginyard, the Water Board’s president, said the […]
Solicitor will not prosecute criminal FOIA case
June 29, 2012 By
A 6th Circuit Solicitor has pulled the plug on an attempt to prosecute criminal charges for violation of the S.C. Freedom of Information Act. Solicitor Doug Barfield Jr. notified Kirby D. Shealy Jr., the judge assigned to hear the case, last week that he would not prosecute the case brought last November against the individual […]
Water Company Gets Favorable Well Report
June 8, 2012 By
The Jenkinsville Water Company Board of Trustees received a favorable well production report from board president Gregrey Ginyard during their monthly meeting Monday evening. The monthly water needed to supplement the company’s own wells to supply its customers comes from Mid-County Water, which in turn, is supplied by the Town of Winnsboro’s water system. For […]
Judge Gives Solicitor 15 Days to Prosecute or Drop JWC Case
June 7, 2012 By
The clock is now officially ticking on criminal proceedings against the individual members of the Jenkinsville Water Company Board of Directors for willful violation of the S.C. Freedom of Information Act. Monday morning, Judge Kirby D. Shealy, a Richland County Magistrate Court Judge assigned by the S.C. Supreme Court to hear the case, ruled that […]
