Henrico students have returned to school after a “rough week” of unforeseen challenges, with a snow storm and county-wide water issues causing schools to close from Jan. 6 to Jan. 10.
Many students living in Eastern and Northern Henrico lost access to tap water altogether last week, while some reported
Although it is contractually obligated to purchase an average of about 12 million gallons of water per day from the City of Richmond until midway through 2040, Henrico County should have the infrastructure in place to supply all county customers with water from its own treatment facility well before then,
Last week’s water crisis in Richmond, which spilled over to Henrico since much of Eastern and Northern Henrico receive their water through the city’s system, has caused some Henrico residents to wonder why they are reliant upon the city’s water supply and not Henrico’s.
The reason
Henrico County officials have hired two outside firms to analyze the county’s response to the water crisis that impacted about 24,000 county water customers last week.
Whitman Requardt & Associates and Aqua Law will conduct analyses of the timeline of events that occurred and will evaluate the county’