First published at 23:51 UTC on September 14th, 2018.
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north of Roosevelt Roads Naval Station-Offsite Field & Aeropuerto José Aponte de la Torre @ 18.2610333,-65.6389017 in Ceiba, Puerto Rico 00735,
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2017/09/16 to 2017/10/02 huricane Maria existed
FEMA handles getting the supplies to the state or commonwealth, which in turn handle distributing those items at a local level,
FEMA director of disaster operations Marty Bahamonde, said the agency delivered the bottled water to the island but didn't track specific shipments an other senior FEMA official said if [FEMA] put that water on that runway there will be hell to pay ... If we did that, we're going to fess up to it.
2018 January so the bottles were transferred to the runway &
FEMA deputy administrator Daniel Kaniewski said there were excess bottles of water "because the demand was less ... because the water came back on." & We didn't need it sitting in expensive storage so "to save money to the American taxpayer. We put it in a location that would not cost us money."
the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration executive director Carlos Mercader , said the bottles were in the custody (FEMA) until April 2018 but were not delivered to Puerto Rico's government during last year's emergency
2018 May, Puerto Rico's General Services Administration administrator Ottmar Chavez said before he was appointed , FEMA reported that it had about 20,000 pallets of excess bottled water & he was not told why it is there, how it got there or how long it has been there
April 17 GSA requested FEMA's inventory of excess water through a federal program on
April 26 GSA was given approval to use the supplies
Ceiba mayor Angel Cruz Ramos said he's grateful for the generosity but believes too much water was delivered at the wrong time. "The time and heat has made it bad,"
700 bottles were distributed & some were found tainted but Barceloneta Mayor Wanda Soler Rosario office said
her office wa..
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