Maintenance problems for US built facilities

"Inspections of eight facilities that were rehabilitated or built as part of U.S. reconstruction efforts in Iraq revealed problems with maintenance that suggest some such projects may not function as long or as well as planned, according to a federal oversight agency.
The evaluations were conducted by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, which is charged with monitoring projects for fraud, waste and abuse of funds.
. . . [It] looked at eight projects across Iraq, with a total cost of about $150 million, and found maintenance and operational problems with seven.
The findings range from unrepaired water leaks that damaged floors at the Camp Ur military base in Nasiriyah, generators that weren't working at Baghdad International Airportand expensive equipment going unused at a maternity and pediatric hospital in Irbil.
Bowen said that each of the facilities had generally been completed as originally envisioned but that the problems found had at least, in some cases, partly impaired the facilities' ability to function fully."

source
Hedgpeth, Dana. (The Washington Post). Report Finds Problems at Iraqi Sites Built or Aided by U.S. April 29, 2007.

posted: tuesday, may 1, 2007, 3:33 PM ET

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