May 30 Newsletter: Commonwealth's Attorney rematch
Also: Human error contributed to the second water outage, but the administration doesn't want to talk about it. And a graduation day story, as well as a local ice cream company going national.
Michael Phillips
May 28 Newsletter: 'Here we go again'
For months, Richmond officials have said January's water problem should never happen again. On Tuesday, it happened again. Here's the very latest:
Clock starts on lifting boil water advisory; midday Thursday would be the earliest
The city has submitted the first of two required samples to lift the boil water advisory impacting portions of Richmond.
3 p.m. water update: Production resumes; poor 'raw water quality' contributed to outage
The water plant is now producing water at about 40-45 million gallons per day, slightly below normal full operating capacity of about 50 million gallons per day.
Low water pressure reported in parts of Richmond; city says overnight issue is solved
"Due to high turbidity in the system, some of the plant’s filters clogged, temporarily reducing finished water production."
May 27 Newsletter: Borrowing Henrico's talent
Plus, a shakeup at the water plant, a disagreement over how far the new cultural heritage plan should go, and some good news for homeowners caught up in the property tax snafu.
Catch up on The Richmonder's local reporting
As our journalists take a breather on this holiday weekend, we invite you to revisit some of the in-depth storytelling we've done over the past couple months. I've shared some of my favorites below.
