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Public Water Supply Distribution Systems: Assessing and Reducing Risks

This report evaluates approaches for risk characterization and recent data, and it identifies a variety of strategies that could be considered to reduce the risks posed by water-quality deteriorating ...
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3,000 Outlook-area residents without water after distribution system tampered with

The RCMP is investigating after Outlook's water distribution system was tampered with, causing the water to be shut off for nearly 3,000 residents in Outlook, Broderick, Glenside and the RM of Rudy.
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‘It’s our lifeline’: Hanover residents line up for water distribution, frustrated at lack of communication

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — While the city of Richmond deals with its own water outage issues, Hanover County neighbors are feeling the effects. Following a malfunction of the city’s reservoir system ...
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Outlook working to restore service after exposed hatch leaves 3,000 people without water

What we're looking at now is the town's reservoirs being flushed and disinfected and cleaned to make sure there's no possibility of that contamination,” said Patrick Boyle with the Water Security ...
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‘A sense of security’: Henrico opens water distribution sites amid issues with water pressure

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Henrico County officials have opened water distribution centers following a water main break in downtown Richmond that left many county residents with low water pressure. “It ...
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Henrico's new $280 million reservoir could be new regional water source: 'We can serve more customers'

'We can serve more customers, not only in Henrico but regionally,' county officials say about new Cobbs Creek Reservoir RICHMOND, Va. — When Richmond's water treatment plant went under last week, ...