93-3-WMR Audio on Demand presents the Preston and Steve show podcast.

And now Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

All right, today is Wednesday, April 1st.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning.

In the news this morning, there's a major dispute brewing between Montgomery County and the Eschelon Corporation, and it has to do with the coronavirus and the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant.

A parking lot has been designated for new contractors that have been hired as the annual refuel

of the reactor maintenance project is underway. But according to Montgomery County, there's a big

problem. Dr. Valerie Arcoosh, the chair of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioner, says back on April, I'm sorry, March 16th, Eschelon, the company that runs the Limerick power plant, gave them a lackluster social distancing plan. She said we learned of plans to bring approximately 1,800 workers into our region from around the United States.

We asked Eschelon to postpone the refuel until a time when the disease burden from COVID-19 was

lower, but Eschelon has moved forward with their plan.

Today, our Department of Public Safety received notice that the adherence of social distancing

measures may not be occurring at the work sites at our kush.

Eschlan says the project officially called the spring refueling outage must go on.

If not, they say they will have to close, and that means millions lose power, including local

hospitals.

But Eschon vows their social distancing inside, vows that they are social distancing inside.

The company says that they're screening

workers for symptoms before they can enter, which includes a temperature check. They've also brought

three nurses on site and retained three local doctors to attend to any potential sick employees.

But according to a Limerick Township manager that hasn't been relayed to them, sometimes

the communication with Echelon is not the bested to them. Sometimes the communication with

...