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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

SEP-26-2000 1651 MAYOR'S OF C of ENV. 000RD 1 212 798 2941 P.04/08

' ~Tr May w 'Vl Er~MeoNMENW PWTWnoN TMr CITY of NEw Ybta DEMITMENT C* D. Hoffer E ~ JOEL A. MIRE SR.. P.E. Commissioner General Counsel

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May 22, 2000

W. Martin 1. O'Grady --------------------•-----------------------------

PII Dear Mr. O'Grady: Douglas Greeley has been directed to Your May I I.2000 letter to Deputy Commissioner Department employee involved with each incident me for reply. In response. I spoke to the Notice of Violation which you received for which you discuss. You should be aware that the Our issued by our Bureau of Customer Service. failing to return meter permit No. 73637, was outstanding permits and I have enclosed a list for records indicate that you currently have eight jurisdiction of another of our operating your reference. The leaking sewer line fell under the each of these bureaus report up a different bureaus. Water and Sewer Operations. Employees in The people with whom I discussed your chain of command to a separate Deputy Commissioner. bureau and it is very clear that your complaint letter knew nothing of your contacts with the other about a "vendetta" is without merit. informed that enforcement Regarding the violation which you received. I have been failed to return meter permits. Our action has commenced against other plumbers who have also timely return of permits. The various ability to properly bill customers depends on plumbers adequately consulted prior to our trade associations representing the plumbing industry were governing this matter. I have commencing our current campaign to enforce the regulations to the location which is on file enclosed for your information a letter sent to you and addressed intended to put you on notice of the for you with the Department of Buildings which was returned as undeliverable. potential for violations. . I have been informed that the letter was .vou. ... listed at several Subsequent attempts to obta ^ a •.sua.~.»] „_a,t,tresc otaraaJed_that 1(iffataztt addre ea.including_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ P11 ~-._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.. PII aware that the New York With regard to the leaking service connection. you should be very clear in requiring that a City Administrative Code and the Department's regulations are cost and expense. I have property owner repair or replace a defective service line at his/her own attributable to electrolysis or been informed that the Dyer Avenue problem is most likely responsibility for damage galvanic action. The Department of Environmental Protection bears no responsible for the cetity resulting from these forces and I suggest that your client look to producing the stray electrical current for relief.

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