This Week’s Guests: Asheville Fire Department Public Information Officer Kelley Klope and Water Resources Communications Specialist Clay Chandler share tips and tricks for getting your home and family ready to face the winter months ahead.
Winter weather is here in the mountains. The Water Resources Department has taken additional measures to continue to be able to provide service in extremem conditions.
With winter quickly approaching, the City of Asheville Water Resources Department is encouraging our customers to follow best practices for the prevention of freezing water pipes.
City offices to close Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. This article contains information about holiday service schdeules.
Backflow Assembly The City of Asheville (CoA) is sending letters to customers who recently installed a well or water shortage tank and will need to install a backflow assembly. Action must be taken to protect the CoA’s water system from contamination due to backflow. All water accounts that have a connection to a well or water storage [...]
The City of Asheville (CoA) is sending letters to customers who recently installed a well or water shortage tank and will need to install a backflow assembly. Action must be taken to protect the CoA’s water system from contamination due to backflow. NC Water Warn is working with the CoA and will be testing backflow assemblies [...]
City Council received the report and presentation from the Independent Review Committee (IRC) at the Council’s scheduled June 13 meeting. The IRC was seated to review the water outage experienced by some City of Asheville water customers in late December 2022 and early January 2023. “We thank the IRC members for their diligent work and volunteer [...]
This water system distribution project is located along Patton Avenue (US-19) between Florida Avenue and Haywood Road. The project includes 7,000 feet of 24-inch waterline along with the installation of a 36-inch incasement pipe for a trenchless crossing of Patton Ave at New Leicester Highway, and other miscellaneous water system components including service connections and other appurtenances.
On May 9, 2023, Asheville City Council approved a contract for the engineering services of Hazen and Sawyer for improvements to the South Buncombe Pump Station and Concord Water Service Area. This water infrastructure improvement project serves portions of Biltmore Village, Shiloh, Sweeten Creek, Royal Pines, Mills Gap and Concord water service areas. This project [...]