Turn On The Regional Tap - Part 1

RVA 5x5 - June 10, 2025

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Tomorrow afternoon, Henrico County and Hanover County will hold a joint public meeting of their Board of Supervisors to discuss the future of providing water to residents of both counties. The meeting was scheduled about a month ago, well after the city’s January 6 water plant meltdown that left much of the region without water for six days, but before the most recent city water plant mess two weeks ago when the city failed to clean the intake filters from the river. That led to the second Boil Water Advisory (BWA) in five months. Along with the fluoride flood incident that happened in late April (which went unreported for four days), …