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City manager warns of regional fires, outlines near-complete meter change-out and short outage plan

3620185 · March 4, 2025
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City Manager Wright told Portland council about multiple nearby wildfires and smoke advisories and said the city is close to finishing a meter box replacement program that will cause brief outages at individual homes.

City Manager Wright told the council on March 4 that multiple wildfires in the region were producing dangerous smoke levels and that the National Weather Service had issued a shelter-in-place advisory for parts of San Patricio County for people with respiratory vulnerabilities. He also updated the council on the city's water meter change-out program, saying the job is nearing completion and that crews are replacing meter boxes in clusters across several neighborhoods.

"We are within about 500 meters of completing the…

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