![]() He could never join them for this, could never share this moment with them when he was responsible. Although he had always thought of the Weasleys as his family, he felt distant right now. His eyes trailed around the room and caught the Weasleys, welcoming home one son and mourning the loss of another. He watched the Malfoys huddled together, unsure if they should be there, but surrounded by other Slytherins who had changed sides. everyone wanted to shake the hand of the boy who lived, but not harry. To the masses, he was a symbol rather than a real person. Yet not a single person crowding around knew him as Harry, as the scared little boy who knew far too little about the big world of magic. Everyone wanted to congratulate the victor. Everyone wanted to shake the hand of the boy-who-lived (though he supposed it would soon turn in to some other ridiculous moniker, like the man-who-won). He knew he should have felt euphoric from the victory and a sense of belonging from the masses, yet all he felt was empty. People from all over came up to him to shake his hand or to thank him. Harry was an integral part of that celebration. The special election will take place on Tuesday, June 13.As the sun rose over Hogwarts, the people inside celebrated the fall of the Dark Lord. ![]() Anyone registered to vote in Norman can cast a ballot, not just utility customers. Norman is the only large city in Oklahoma that requires a city-wide vote to raise water rates. “We'll have a nice system we're all proud of and, you know, not have all these failures and disruptions and fears of maybe having a boil order.” “If we all know we're pitching in to make our water system more reliable, safer, I think customers can get behind that,” Mattingly said. That will help the city know where it needs to prioritize replacing lead and copper service lines with PVC ones. “We've got about $6 million in the next five years that we're looking to spend on that program to better understand where we have lead in our system,” Madenwald said. Madenwald said the rate hike would also enable the city to comply with new lead and copper programs. But he hopes improvements could also set the city up to comply with future changes to water quality standards, like anticipated limits for forever chemical PFAS. ![]() ![]() If the city can’t chlorinate its water, Mattingly said the DEQ could issue a violation against Norman for breaking the law. Madenwald said the city needs to bring its municipal well water to a central point where it can be chlorinated. ”īut the city doesn’t add chlorine at each of these individual wells. “The challenge that we have with that is the Department of Environmental Quality requires that we have chlorine residual within our system to make sure if there's anything that gets into that line and it provides resistance to bacteria or other things growing. ![]() “Those wells currently just pump water out of the ground into a pipe, and then that flows to our system,” said Norman Utilities Engineer Nathan Madenwald. Norman gets most of its water from Lake Thunderbird, but about a quarter comes from municipal wells. If the increase is approved, Mattingly said, it would generate almost $7 million per year, which the city can use to improve its water lines and meet upcoming water standards. “But we're not able to really schedule pipe replacements in a preventative fashion.” “Our budgets being low, we're only able to go in and patch and repair and then fix the damage that the blowout does,” Mattingly said. KOSU Mattingly uses a piece of corroded ductile iron pipe and a lead service line to demonstrate Norman's aging water infrastructure. ![]()
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