What to do to after you get water pressure back
From the Virginia Department of Health:
Flushing Instructions AFTER an Advisory is Lifted
Follow these instructions to flush the water throughout your home,
restaurant, place of business or other location once an advisory has been
lifted.1. Run outside taps for approximately 10 minutes to bring fresh water from the
water main to the property.2. If you have any cartridge filtration systems treating the water coming into the
house, replace the filter(s) before consuming.3. If you have a water softener treating the water coming into the house, perform a
regeneration/backwash cycle to bring fresh water from the property to the
treatment system.4. Run all cold-water faucets in your home for one minute to bring fresh water from
the property or treatment systems into the cold-water plumbing inside the
house. Start at the faucet closest to the connection of the water line into the
house and proceed to faucets on lower levels of the house and then upper
levels of the house.5. Clean any aerators on faucets.
6. Run the hot water in a tub for 10 minutes to replace water in the hot water
heater.
These are not good recommendations. We have been asked to conserve water and we need 100% water pressure city-wide before people should be using this much water!
This is for *****AFTER***** the advisory is lifted