Interview: The Massive Job of Replacing Fountaingrove’s Entire Water System

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Rain water pools where a Fountaingrove neighborhood home once stood Monday, Jan. 8, 2018, in Santa Rosa, Calif. Storms brought rain to California on Monday and increased the risk of mudslides in fire-ravaged communities in devastated northern wine country and authorities to order evacuations farther south for towns below hillsides burned by the state's largest-ever wildfire. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

 

Director of Santa Rosa Water, Ben Horenstein, informs us on how bad the status of the water system in the Fountaingrove area of Santa Rosa, what the construction issues are presently, the specific reasons why it needs to be replaced, what contaminated the water after the fires, and if there will be similar issues in Rohnert Park: