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Richmond mayor: conservation, booster pumps and testing underway as city works to restore pressure
Summary
Mayor Aboula told the council committee that crews increased pumps and filters, boosted treatment capacity and are monitoring reservoir levels and pressure. City officials said they need 20 psi in all nine zones and two negative bacterial samples, 16 hours apart, before they can lift the boil-water advisory.
Mayor Aboula told the Organizational Development Standing Committee of the Richmond City Council that crews have increased the number of pumps and filters working on the municipal water system as the city continues efforts to restore system pressure and begin bacteriological testing to lift the boil‑water advisory.
"The key message to the public though is it continues to be one of conservation," Mayor Aboula said, describing the operations and testing plan. He said crews increased pumps from two to five and filters from 13 to 15 and raised treatment throughput from about 45,000,000 gallons per day to roughly 69.6 million gallons per day.
The mayor said reservoir levels have been slow to rise — roughly 7 feet at the time of his update — and that the system must be pressurized in all nine zones before testing can begin. "We need to get up above 10 feet," he said, and officials must reach a minimum of 20…
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