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Relationship between contractor, town officials faces scrutiny
Photo courtesy Arizona Cardinals A Town of Bernalillo contract engineer provided Arizona Cardinals playoff tickets to then-Town Manager Stephen Jerge and a water department official last January, he...
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Bernalillo used no-bid contract for system its engineers refused to recommend
Photo by Esther Gibbons. When Bernalillo’s engineering firm of record, HDR, studied the town’s water treatment options in 2006, former town manager Stephen Jerge asked the company to include in its...
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Bernalillo’s $14 million arsenic treatment system not working, tests show
Photo by Esther Gibbons. Stephen Jerge resigned as Bernalillo’s Town manager last April, after reporters discovered his $45,000 in questionable purchases and cash advances charged to a town credit...
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Bernalillo’s water treatment system dumps sludge into drinking water
Photo by Esther Gibbons. A year after the Town of Bernalillo spent at least $4.9 million to equip its two active wells with new arsenic filtration systems designed by Bernalillo-based ARS-USA,...
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Bernalillo faces rising arsenic levels, second state drinking water violation
Photo by Esther Gibbons. The state Environment Department will issue a second arsenic violation notice to Bernalillo in the coming week, Drinking Water Bureau compliance manager Mike Huber told town...
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Bernalillo fires water system engineer (updated)
Photo by Esther Gibbons. The Town of Bernalillo terminated its contract with Ramesh Narasimhan’s engineering firm, NCS Tuesday, a press release from Mayor Patricia Chavez’s office states. The...
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Bernalillo halts $9 million arsenic treatment project over ‘public safety’...
Photo by Esther Gibbons. Bernalillo has suspended plans to construct a $9.2 million arsenic treatment system at two of the Town’s four wells, Mayor Jack Torres announced this week. Town engineers are...
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Bernalillo operating troubled water system illegally, NMED says
Photo by Esther Gibbons. Bernalillo has been operating its troubled drinking water treatment facilities in violation of state law since 2008, according to Environment Department officials. “We have no...
View ArticleFormer Bernalillo town manager surfaces in Albuquerque Journal opinion pages
In a guest opinion column in the Albuquerque Journal Thursday, former Bernalillo Town manager Stephen Jerge argued that fired Town engineer Ramesh Narasimhan’s engineering is not to blame for...
View ArticleIron treatment successfully reducing Bernalillo’s arsenic levels
Pilot testing with iron treatments has successfully reduced arsenic levels in Bernalillo‘s drinking water, town engineering firm Wilson & Co will report to the Town Council Monday night. Earlier...
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