THE NEW CHARTER OF THE CLARKSBURG WATER BOARD
Department to be An Administrative Entity With Broad Powers for the Public Good—Passed by the West Virginia Legislature in January.
The experience gathered in the administration of the water department of the city of Clarksburg, W. Va., may furnish an idea and afford a suggestion to a body engaged in a like public service. In our humble judgment every municipal water department in this country should be conducted as a separate “administrative entity” and should be entirely separated from the general city government. Such a policy necessitates the conferring of broad and extensive powers upon the administrative body, such as are usually exercised by a private corporation engaged in supplying water for public uses. The city of Clarksburg has created an administrative board and submitted to its government the entire authority of constructing and operating the municipal water plant and system. The powers conferred upon this administrative board are briefly shown in quotations from the Charter appended to this article.
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