HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — It’s been one year since a power outage at Richmond’s water treatment plant left thousands without safe water for nearly a week. Henrico’s director of the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) Bentley Chan told 8News things are “180 degrees better,” but there’s still more to do.
Surrounding areas, including Hanover, parts of Goochland and Henrico County were also impacted. Over the past year, the city and those surrounding areas have spent millions of dollars to prevent something similar happening again.
“We are proactively building the infrastructure that we need to make sure that, hey, it never goes off again,” Chan said…