St. Croix’s power plant failed again Monday, causing a lengthy districtwide outage that disrupted businesses and government operations, and forced all schools to close on the first day back following
ST. THOMAS — A major outage left all St. Thomas feeders without power Wednesday morning, and the V.I. Water and Power Authority has not yet identified the cause.
Testing has confirmed that diesel spilled at the V.I. Water and Power Authority’s power plant on St. Thomas was the same substance later found in the water at Lindbergh Bay,
The V.I. Coast Guard is working to determine how oil ended up in Lindbergh Bay on St. Thomas, and booms have been placed in the water to contain the spill.