‘Laughable’: Virginia residents decry brown water, price increases by private company

CBS 6 first reported in August on elevated levels of iron and manganese turning water brown in the Lake LandOr community. The problem which Aqua Virginia said is caused by the company flushing their systems for maintenance occurred again earlier this month.

Now Aqua Virginia, which operates 190 systems in 37 counties across Virginia, has asked the State Corporation Commission to allow them to raise their water and wastewater prices across the board the eighth time they have done so since 2006. They have 65 full-time employees for the whole state.

Virginia homeowners' water turns brown and becomes unusable. Now their utility company wants to raise prices.

"Ive been in third world countries where I dont have to deal with this kind of crap, one resident said at the meeting with Aqua.

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