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Courtesy David Alegria, Laredo, Texas – The City of Laredo Utilities Department will provide residential and commercial customers an 11-day credit discount due to the boil water notice that took place in July 2021. The credit will be automatically applied in the bill that will be sent on August 2021 and will cover approximately 35%
Courtesy David Alegria, Laredo, Texas – During last Monday’s Special City Council Meeting and after hearing from our community and, more importantly, the stakeholders that are dealing with the influx of bussed migrants, the rise of COVID-19 positive cases, lack of capacities at our NGO’s and, particularly, our hospitals, and other related matters, Council directed our
Courtesy David Alegria, Laredo, Texas – The City of Laredo has taken the necessary corrective actions to restore the quality of the water distributed by the public water system used for drinking and human consumption. As of Tuesday, July 13, 2021, at 4:00 PM, the City has provided TCEQ with laboratory test results that indicate
Courtesy David Alegria, Laredo, Texas – As of Saturday evening at 10:12 PM, the full chlorine conversion has been concluded. Since then, crews monitored the residual to ensure levels were at 0.2 mg/l for 24 hours. The City & TCEQ have begun to collect bacteria samples as of Monday morning. As a reminder, it will
Courtesy David Alegria, Laredo, Texas – The City of Laredo hosted a press conference on Tuesday, July 6, 2021 to address the current boil water notice and next steps the City is taking to resolve the issue. An investigation into to the root cause of the low chlorine levels that led to the boil water
Courtesy Isabel Sosa, Laredo, Texas – On Friday, July 2, the City of Laredo and the Human Resources Department announced the 2021 Career Expo. This event will take place at Sames Auto Arena, located at 6700 Arena Blvd, on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Courtesy Gladys Gonzalez, LAREDO, Texas- As a precautionary measure, the City of Laredo has been required by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) to issue a city-wide boil water notice. High temperatures, along with low rain fall, affect chlorine residuals by aging the water and making it become stagnant in lines that are part
Courtesy Noraida Negron, Laredo, Texas – Effective Tuesday, July 6, 2021, the building inspections made by the Building Development Services will be conducted between 7:00 am and 4:00 pm. This new schedule is to avoid our field inspectors to be exposed to the extreme heat during the summer months peak heat hours. This temporary schedule
Courtesy Isabel Sosa, LAREDO, Texas—The City of Laredo was notified on Friday, July 2, 2021 by TCEQ of low chlorine areas in specific areas in the city. The Utilities Department has been actively flushing lines to increase chlorine levels in the affected areas. In the event that minimum chlorine levels are not maintained the city
70 Texas Communities Honored for their Exceptional Community Improvement Efforts Courtesy Isabel Sosa, LAREDO, TEXAS – Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB), a statewide grassroots environmental and community improvement non-profit organization, recently named Keep Laredo Beautiful a Gold Star Affiliate, a designation granted to 70 affiliates of KTB’s nearly 300 affiliates. Gold Star In 2004, the organization introduced the
