DPU director: compliance tests due; boil-water advisory may be lifted after tomorrow's results

The Richmond Department of Public Utilities (DPU) told the Governmental Operations standing committee that production at the city's water treatment plant has recovered to roughly 60–65 million gallons per day and that laboratory results expected tonight and tomorrow will determine whether the boil-water advisory can be lifted.

DPU Director Scott Morrison said the system reached about 20 pounds per square inch (psi) recovery shortly after 6 p.m. the previous evening and that the first required compliance sample "will be coming out of the incubator, roughly around 09:00 tonight," with a second required sample completing its incubation the following afternoon. "So we'll know shortly in the afternoon time tomorrow if we can lift the boil water advisory," Morrison said.

Why it matters: The advisory affects residents' use of tap water for drinking and cooking until the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) compliance samples test negative. Morrison…