Mendocino review board asks for white hydrants, not ‘Barney purple’ – Roger Coryell

One of the new recycled water hydrants in Mendocino, Calif., on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. The purple hydrants are not popular with residents and until a fix is settled upon the purple hydrants have been covered with black plastic bags. (Roger Coryell via Bay City News)

Mendocino’s new fire hydrants are purple. The village’s historical review board would like them to be a little less purple.

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