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CBS News
4 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Denver voted best tap water in the U.S. and Canada but conference judges award Virginia community
Denver voted best tap water in U.S. but Virginia county wins over judges Denver voted best tap water in U.S. but Virginia county wins over judges Denver voted best tap water in U.S. but Virginia county wins over judges Attendees of a tap water conference voted Denver has the best tap water in the U.S. and Canada, but judges from the organization disagreed. The American Water Works Association just awarded Henrico, Virginia, the accolade at the annual AWWA Annual Conference and Exposition in Denver. The region near Richmond faced off against cities and communities across the country, including Denver, but ultimately beat Denver, along with other communities' tap water. Three judges tasted samples from 26 water utilities across the U.S. and Canada. Denver scored a first-place spot in the "People's Choice" category -- voted on by all conference attendees -- but failed to place in the top three among the judges in the "Best of the Best" category. "People's Choice": Denver Appleton, Minnesota Bloomington, Minnesota Taylor Wilson, left, of Denver Water, accepts the "People's Choice" award on behalf of the city for best tap water in the U.S. and Canada at the American Water Works Association's 2025 conference in Denver on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. CBS While perhaps a product of the attendees having had a lot of Denver's water throughout the four-day conference, Denver and Colorado rarely rank particularly high in lists of best-tasting or cleanest tap water. U.S. News and World Report recently ranked Colorado as 33rd for drinking water quality among U.S. states and Colorado failed to rank in the top 10 for large metro areas in the U.S. in a recent J.D. Power U.S. Water Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction Study. Denver did, however, rank 9th in its 2025 study in the "West-Large" regional category and in its "West-Midsize" regional category, Colorado Springs Utilities ranked 6th and Aurora Water ranked 10th. American Water Works Association judges taste tap water from utilities around the U.S. and Canada at the organization's 2025 conference in Denver on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. CBS The "Best of the Best" winners at the AWWA conference were: Henrico, Virginia Taylorsville Bennion Improvement District, Utah Ames, Iowa The conference wraps up on Wednesday and includes a number of competitions, including a "meter challenge," pipe tapping competition, and more. The finals for each of those competitions are on Wednesday.
Associated Press
02-06-2025
- General
- Associated Press
Botanical Artists Mini-Expo Features The Wright Scoop
Expo takes place on June 6 at Tuckahoe Area Library in Henrico, Virginia The Botanical Artists Mini-Expo will be held on June 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Tuckahoe Area Library, located at 1901 Starling Dr. in Henrico County, Virginia. Featured artist, The Wright Scoop – Sylvia Hoehns Wright, will greet and talk with visitors. 'Redbud Tree,' one of two of her illustrations in the exhibit on plants and pollinators, is an identified " Plant of CARE.' Other participants will demo the tools and techniques of the botanical artist trade as well as help attendees draw a plant from real specimens with watercolor pencils. For kids, there will be plenty of activities, including butterfly coloring sheets, make-a-flower-and-bee craft, learning how mushrooms save bees, and making botanical zines and acquiring botanical tattoos (in lieu of face painting). A video playing in the background—beekeepers at work—is provided via courtesy of Sylvia Hoehns Wright. Artist, author, and lecturer Sylvia Hoehns Wright has been featured for her woodland gardens by Birds & Blooms magazine and in Richmond newspapers and is recognized nationwide as an eco-sustainability advocate, backpage columnist, and TV radio personality. To inspire others, Wright exhibits her art during Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden events and uses it to illustrate plants in her 'Plants of CARE' program. The expo is sponsored by Central Virginia Botanical Artists, an affiliate of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA). For details visit: About The Wright Scoop – Sylvia Hoehns Wright A graduate of the Virginia Natural Resource Leadership Institute program and a recipient of the 'Turning America from Eco-weak to Eco-chic' award, The Wright Scoop – Sylvia Hoehns Wright urges all to keep America beautiful and become people who CARE—have a perspective of conservation, accountability, recovery and eco-efficiency. To inspire others, she offers one-on-one consulting, speeches and workshops and has published a series of eco books. For more information, visit email sy[email protected], or follow her activities on social media through Facebook group The Wright Scoop or @WrightScoop on Twitter/X. Media Contact Sylvia Hoehns Wright [email protected] ### SOURCE: The Wright Scoop – Sylvia Hoehns Wright Copyright 2025 EZ Newswire
Axios
05-03-2025
- Business
- Axios
Henrico's $2.3 billion GreenCity development and arena project could be in jeopardy
Henrico County recently sent default notices to the developer of its $2.3 billion GreenCity project, according to a scoop from BizSense. Why it matters: The future of the mixed-use development, including its 17,000-seat arena — which would've replaced the long-shuttered Richmond Coliseum as the largest concert venue in the region — is now in question. Catch up quick: In December 2020, Henrico announced plans to build GreenCity — an eco-friendly mixed-use project with an arena, hotels, housing, retail and office space, trails, and parks — on the 200-acre site off I-95 and I-295. The county tapped Michael Hallmark and Susan Eastridge — the developers behind the city's failed Navy Hill proposal (which included replacing the Richmond Coliseum) — to lead the project. GreenCity's first phase, the arena and hotels, were initially supposed to be delivered this year to open in 2026. Zoom in: The developers, operating as Green City Partners LLC, haven't yet obtained financing, submitted plans, broken ground or paid most of the $6.2 million it owes the county, Henrico charged in a letter to GCP in July, per BizSense. Thus far, the developers have paid the county just $1 million in two installments. Its final payment of $5.2 million was due last month. It didn't come. After the missed February payment, Henrico slapped the developers with a second default notice for failure to pay. That notice followed one the county sent in December for nonperformance, which cited the lack of any work on the site or toward financing. Of note: Green City Partners didn't respond to a request for comment by press time. What's next: Now Henrico wants the site back so it can look for a new developer to deliver its GreenCity project. Per the county's purchase with the developers, they get an automatic 10-day extension to pay the $5.2 million they owe. That ends March 13. Keep reading on Richmond BizSense to see the other local projects the developers are involved in.
