A Napa County civil grand jury said in June that decades of sediment in the St. Helena water mains had never been assessed and had no repair plan. Twenty-four days later, a bus hit a hydrant.
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St. Helena: where the town’s water comes from
St. Helena’s water runs from an 1878 earthen dam built by Chinese laborers in York Canyon to today’s Bell Canyon reservoir — a 150-year story of dams, droughts, lawsuits and the wine families who started it.