Asheville water outages, 1 year later: What’s been done after thousands went without water

ASHEVILLE – In what felt like an “eerie repeat” of another major holiday nearly a year prior, residents in dozens of homes on Beaucatcher Mountain woke up Thanksgiving morning without water. A main near Town Mountain Road had burst. Though the scale was much smaller and the intermittent outages much shorter, it felt like an omen. For some, it ignited fears of the coming winter, which to that point, had been largely mild. But when temperatures inevitably drop, some people wondered, would the city be able to weather the storm? People don’t tend to think much about water until they are faced with a twist of the faucet and a few gasping sputters before the water dissipates entirely. “Bad bill…