Looks like they're in progress for covering a couple of the other finished water reservoirs. Still, not a good situation.
Same issue happens in my part of the country, where large metro area water systems bully their way around the Safe Water Drinking Act regs, putting their customers at risk all for the sake of avoiding the heat of raising rates to mitigate hazards.
Ok I missed that, Thanks. I gotta say stupid is as stupid does. Why the }{€££ does one spend the time and money to Treat Water to potable standards and then put it in an open hole for storage ?! Spend a few extra dollars and build some Clearwells, Standpipes and Elevated Tanks !!!
I know people bitch about how much they pay for their water bill. There was one Privately owned System that charged IIRC $18.00 @ month for service including the meter and the first 2000 gallons and $1.25 per 1000 additional gallons and those customers would bitch, piss and moan about it and claim that the meter was reading incorrectly because it was old. We would explain that an older meter was going to read in their favor because of the wear and deposits of minerals on the parts in the meter and if we replaced it with a new meter that the Bill would go up because of the cleaner and more accurate new meter. Most of them would say well than leave the old one there. The ones that didn't believe us would insist on a new meter so we would change it out. Then next month they would bitch about it because the bill went up. Of course they also had the greenest yard in the subdivision (in the Texas Hill Country where grass isn't native. That's why the smart ones would leave the native grass , plants, cacti and trees.) and a swimming pool in the backyard that had to be topped up regularly because of evaporation.
But they had no problem with paying $1-2 for a 16 or 20 Oz Bottle of water at the store. And the water from the system was excellent Ground Water that was naturally filtered by the Limestone in the Aquifer. We did have to add CL2 (Chlorine) by the Water Commission Regulations but we only put in just enough to meet the Testing Requirements.
I spent 10+ years in the Water Treatment Plant in several locations in Texas and not a one of them stored Finished Water in an open hole in the ground. That's just STUPID STOOPID STUPID !!!
As far as the epa dufusoids are concerned their Regs and Requirements are not worth much. Texas has higher standards than the epa-oids do for Treated Water.