FRANKFORT, Ky. (LEX 18) – Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear announced Monday that his office will conduct an investigation into the Martin County Water District.
Beshear declared the probe in a three-sentence missive delivered to media outlets and posted on Twitter:
1/2 The Attorney General’s Office is opening an inquiry into the past and present management and operations of the Martin Co Water District. Handling the inquiry for the office will be the Department of Criminal Investigations and the Office of Rate Intervention. pic.twitter.com/KOoHHIX4hZ
— KY Attorney General (@kyoag) June 4, 2018
The troubled water district has suffered through catastrophic outages and recently instituted a rate hike of nearly 30 percent.
