How Hendersonville kept water on after Helene storm
Hendersonville utilities crews topped off emergency power generators to keep water in 24 elevated storage tanks as a fast moving storm damaged lines and caused countywide outages. They isolated five major leaks after Edneyville and Fletcher areas were hit, restoring Mills River intake and restoring pressure by Sunday night. The system serves about 80,000 people with a boil water advisory in effect, and rebuilding includes a new 23.5 million dollar raw water intake on the French Broad River.