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Van Tatum, an employee at Kroger in Carytown, stocks shelves with sparkling water, the only bottled water remaining after the water bottle aisle was cleared out by customers within two hours of Richmond issuing a boil water advisory Monday, Jan. 7. The advisory followed a winter storm-related outage that caused a failure at a City of Richmond water treatment facility.

Van Tatum, an employee at Kroger in Carytown, stocks shelves with sparkling water, the only bottled water remaining after the water bottle aisle was cleared out by customers within two hours of Richmond issuing a boil water advisory Monday, Jan. 7. The advisory followed a winter storm-related outage that caused a failure at a City of Richmond water treatment facility.

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James Winfield is restocking the drink section at the Kroger in Carytown on Monday evening, taking in the scene around him.