This from ElPasoTimes.com:
It could be until mid-week when a boil water notice is lifted and water service is fully returned to normal after a water outage of “unprecedented proportions” in Northeast El Paso, a water utility official said Sunday evening, Jan. 11.
Well I guess a water outage is unprecedented.
But what about 2021, when those sewer mains on the westside broke?
From ElPasoMatters.com:
More than 150 million gallons of sewage from El Paso’s West Side is flowing into the Rio Grande. The wastewater, which includes waste from toilets, showers and sink drains, is untreated.
. . .
Officials from El Paso Water, which manages the municipal wastewater and storm systems for the city, said “unprecedented” catastrophic failures of two wastewater lines means waste usually stored and treated at the Hickerson Water Reclamation Facility will instead be diverted to the Rio Grande.
I know that we’re nice here in El Paso. I know we don’t like to be mean, or hurt someone’s feelings.
I also know that the El Paso job market is not the most competitive, and we don’t always get the best, most qualified, candidates here, and many of our institutions operate on a patronage, good ol’ boy, system.
(And yet, when we’re parsing salaries, we always use, as metrics, what other cities are paying their employees.)
But two catastrophic failures from El Paso Water in less than five years?
I reckon the next major failure won’t be unprecedented.
If that’s any consolation.
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