IN THE LAST WEEK
The Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority continues to be in hot water of one kind or another.
Two weeks after 100,000 of its city customers were instructed to boil water for two days to avoid risk of illness, which no doubt aggravated most if not all of them, the agency’s operations have drawn criticism from both city Controller Michael Lamb and the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Mr. Lamb released findings of an audit of PWSA faulting it for problems “at every turn,” ranging from poor customer service to lead contamination. Part of the problem, according to the audit, has been a revolving door of four different directors who were in charge of the agency. The controller turned the findings, including 53 recommendations, over to state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, whose office is initiating its own review of PWSA operations.
Meanwhile, the DEP found that the authority made unauthorized changes to its water treatment chemicals for the second time in three years. State regulators are investigating whether those changes jeopardized water quality or public health.
Under investigation in a different kind of troubling fashion is Jeffrey
Sandusky, 41, who is one of the six adopted children of Jerry Sandusky, disgraced former Penn State football assistant coach.
Jeffrey Sandusky, like his father before him, was arrested in Centre County on multiple counts of child sexual abuse. A state corrections officer who has been suspended from that prison position, he is being held on $200,000 bond for alleged abuse of two girls, from whom he is accused of soliciting oral sex and nude photos.
Two men who became famous as football standouts were in the news for off-the-field exploits — one of them more positively than the other.
Darrelle Revis, a onetime Aliquippa High School standout who starred at both Pitt and in the NFL, has been charged with aggravated
assault and other felonies after a late-night fight last weekend on the South Side. City police said he was involved in an altercation in which two men were knocked unconscious after one approached him on Carson Street and asked if Mr. Revis, who played last year for the New York Jets, was in fact the NFL player. Mr. Revis’ attorney denied he did anything wrong, suggesting
another man initiated the contact. Former Steelers cornerback
Dwayne Woodruff has been on the right side of the law for years, serving as an Allegheny County Common Pleas judge. Now he’s out to win election to state Supreme Court.
Judge Woodruff, who sought the same seat unsuccessfully in 2015, was surrounded by fellow ex-Steelers and Democratic local political leaders in announcing his candidacy. He is thus far the only Democrat to enter the primary election race.