Timeline for easing Calgary’s water restrictions to be revealed Tuesday
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Mayor Jyoti Gondek spoke on Monday about the ongoing work to restore normal water service after a catastrophic water main break last month.
City of Calgary officials are expected to provide a timeline on Tuesday for when restrictions on outdoor water use could be lifted. They are also expected to discuss when Calgarians might be able to stop restricting their use of water indoors.
At her daily afternoon update on the ongoing water supply crisis, Mayor Jyoti Gondek spoke on Monday about the ongoing work to restore normal water service after a catastrophic water main break last month.
She said the monitoring of the stabilization phase, the final step of the water restoration process, will continue overnight.
“We’re not at a place yet to lift outdoor water restrictions or the fire ban, but we should know more tomorrow morning about how much longer we will need to continue saving water indoors,” Gondek said Monday.
The mayor’s daily morning update has been pushed from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday in order to give officials more time to analyze information about how the system is performing. Gondek will also be joined by Ric McIver, the province’s municipal affairs minister.
“We still need to keep up water-saving efforts until we know we have the all-clear. We’re so close,” she said on Monday.
The repaired part of the water feeder main that ruptured on June 5 was reconnected to the rest of the distribution network on Sunday.
“We have been slowly increasing the amount of water flowing from the Bearspaw Water Treatment Plant through the feeder main and into the rest of the network,” said Michael Thompson, the city’s general manager of infrastructure services.
