[Vision2020] Kudos to Moscow Water Dept.

[J Ford]

What areas did this affect?

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>From: Tim Lohrmann <timlohr at yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Kudos to Moscow Water Dept.
>Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:21:30 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Visionists,
>               The folks at the Moscow Water Dept. deserve a big thanks for 
>their quick and effective handling of what could have been a major problem 
>late last week.
>
>              Apparently a construction site snafu led to a water line 
>being cut and potential contamination of water to a few neighborhoods last 
>Friday---mine being one of them.
>
>             The Water Dept. crews immediately went around to all the 
>possibly affected areas and let everyone know. They put doorhangers on the 
>front doors explaining the possible problem along with a gallon jug of 
>Idaho Ice Spring Water.  Distributing  the jugs of water was an excellent 
>idea. Sometimes door hangers can be overlooked, misplaced by kids, etc. The 
>jug of water along with the warning was not only practical---providing some 
>pure water for immediate use---but provided better notice of the possible 
>problem.
>               The Department tested the water and then, on Monday, 
>distributed another "all clear" notice in the neighborhoods that might have 
>been affected.
>
>              Thankfully there was no problem, but if there had been, the 
>rapid response of the Water crews might have saved some water customers  
>from becoming ill or worse.
>               There's quite a bit of water line maintenance that has to be 
>done in my neighborhood and we've always been impressed with the friendly 
>and professional folks that do the work. This latest effort just 
>highlighted the good job they do.
>                  TL
>
>
>
>
>              " Those 'technicalities' have a name, Bobby. They're called 
>the Bill of Rights."
>                                                                            
>                                   ----Hank Hill
>
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