More than 100,000 residents in western North Carolina are now allowed to drink and bathe with water from their home faucets. The change on Monday comes nearly two months after Hurricane Helene destroyed much of the local water system. Clay Chandler is a spokesman for Asheville’s Water Resources Department.
FILE - Travis Edwards captures excess water while cleaning dishes on Oct. 3, 2024, in Asheville , N.C. FILE - Damage from Hurricane Helene near Asheville , N.C., is seen during an aerial tour for President Joe Biden, Oct. 2, 2024. FILE - Travis Edwards captures excess water while cleaning dishes on Oct. 3, 2024, in Asheville , N.C. FILE - Travis Edwards captures excess water while cleaning dishes on Oct. 3, 2024, in Asheville , N.C. FILE - Damage from Hurricane Helene near Asheville , N.C.
Clay Chandler, a spokesman for the city of Asheville’s Water Resources Department, said at a briefing Monday that water tests “were all clear” and a boil-water notice was lifted.Asheville restored running water to most of its users by the end of October. But the city instituted the boil-water notice as workers brought the system back online, cleared sediment from reservoirs and ran tests.
“All told, more than 1,000 samples have been taken throughout the distribution system in the last couple of weeks,” Chandler said. “And it literally took an army of people to pull that off.”A third November storm, Sara, serves notice that a busy hurricane season isn’t over yetAs much of the U.S.’s water infrastructure ages and climate change fuels disasters, experts have said water advisories will become more common.
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