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Ex-Director Reveals: Closed Pump Station Caused Asheville’s Water Outage

TL/DR - Former Asheville water director Mike Holcombe claims that the decommissioned East Asheville Booster Pump Station is the primary cause of a major water outage during Christmas in 2022. He argues that if the pump station had been operational, it would have boosted water flow during high demand and the outage due to frozen water plants and…