RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — For the past decade, Richmonder Laney Sullivan has been petitioning to reopen the city’s historic springs, a vital source of water in Richmond in the 1800s and 1900s.
“I’ve been trying to get the city to reopen Fonticello Springs for almost a decade,” Sullivan said. “But then when this water crisis happened, it really brought to my attention how vital of a resource these springs were.”
Sullivan started the petition when the water outage hit and has received over 1,000 signatures- including Councilwoman Stephanie Lynch. The petition calls on the mayor to revamp Richmond’s springs, and Sullivan said there are somewhere around a dozen of them in the city…