(WVLT) - Newport Utilities announced Sunday evening it was declaring a state of emergency for all water ... Newport Utilities said many of their water storage tanks were nearing their minimum ...

The way to do that, Terruzzin believes, would be to repurpose a low-cost water-storage ... and kept for an emergency. In the event of a fire, water would flow down out of the tanks by gravity.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. plans to add 23 storage tanks with a total capacity of about 30,000 tons for the processed radioactive water accumulating at its crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant.