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Henrico affirms local emergency after winter storm; hires outside firms to review water response
Summary
Henrico County told the Board of Supervisors Jan. 14 that winter storm damage and a connected Richmond treatment-plant outage left thousands without water, the county affirmed a local emergency and hired outside consultants; an after-action briefing is scheduled for Feb. 11.
Henrico County Manager (name not specified in the transcript) updated the Board of Supervisors on Jan. 14 about last week’s water disruptions, said the county formally affirmed a local emergency and announced it had retained outside consultants to analyze infrastructure and response.
The county manager told the board that the county’s emergency operations center opened Jan. 5 for winter-storm response and remained active through Jan. 11 as a separate, region-wide water-treatment outage affected Henrico customers. “At its peak, we had more than 24,000 of our customers without water,” the county manager said, and the county distributed more than 153,000 cases of bottled water, made available about 120,000 gallons of potable water via 20 tanker trucks, and delivered water to 48 day-care…
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