By Rich Pollack
When Delray Beach needed water, lots of it and in a hurry, it turned to those it knew it could count on — its neighbors.
Those neighbors came through, providing the city with more than 30 million gallons of drinking water in all — and
By John Pacenti
To make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs. When it comes to Delray Beach’s $280 million water plant, that apparently meant breaking the main line that provides water to the city.
A 36-inch water main break at Delray Beach’s wate
City wins millions in tap water lawsuit — Delray Beach will receive $15 million as the result of the nationwide settlement of a class-action lawsuit against the manufacturers of so-called “forever chemicals” that are in tap water.
The city was one of
Water samples taken between May 14 and 18 show those from (l-r) a Delray Beach home on Delray Lakes Drive, a Delray Beach condo on Dotterel Road, a Boca Raton home on Southwest Fifth Street, and two samples from a Delray Beach home on Sandoway Lane t
By Joe Capozzi
South Palm Beach officials are taking tours of the West Palm Beach water treatment plant to gain a better understanding of the quality of the town’s drinking water supply.
Council members Ray McMillan and Monte Berendes took separate
U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel listens to Water Treatment Plant Manager James T. Lee at the Delray Beach plant. Photo provided
By Rich Pollack
When U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel and Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia toured the city’s water treatment plant Feb. 8,
By Rich Pollack
Residents of a Gulf Stream condominium who have struggled with water pressure issues for more than three years met with Delray Beach officials last month hoping to learn why water mysteriously disappears from their faucets during earl
By Jane Smith
After a failed legal maneuver to water down the strength of its public notice, the city of Delray Beach admitted on Dec. 3 that its Utilities Department had failed to inform the public for about 12 years that drinking water might be uns
By Rich Pollack
The water was flowing out of the faucets just fine at Jim Gammon and Margo Stahl-Gammon’s top-floor Gulfstream Shores condo for a few months as the summer rains came down.
But when the storms stopped and snowbirds flocked back to thei
On Nov. 9, the Delray Beach City Commission voted unanimously to approve a consent order with the Florida Department of Health Palm Beach County. Over the past 20 months, a lot has been accomplished to bring the city’s reclaimed water cross-connectio
