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Caroline County utility director outlines tank work and responds to localized flushing incident
Summary
County utilities staff reviewed water‑tank maintenance and mixer installations, outlined plans for additional storage tanks, and described a recent localized water‑quality incident caused during a tank refill in Lady Smith that staff flushed and said they will address with revised procedures and better customer notifications.
Caroline County's director of public utilities briefed the board March 10 on recent and planned water‑system work, including internal tank cleaning, mixers to reduce thermal stratification, and scheduled repainting and construction of two new storage tanks to increase system redundancy.
He said crews installed mixers in several tanks to prevent a seasonal thermal flip that can degrade water quality. The county expects to add two tanks in the next two years (one 500,000‑gallon tank and another…
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