Transcript of the Emergency Phone Message 8:00 PM:
Phone
Message February 10, 2025, 8:00 PM
This message is
from the Kootenai County Water District No. 1 Board of Directors.
This is an
update on the Water System Emergency.
At this hour, it
has become unsafe for the repair work to continue on the raw water intake main
on Sunnyside Road. Crews will be back on
site tomorrow around 7:45 AM in order to complete the repairs and get raw water
pumping to the sand filters.
The District
will be bringing in an additional 7000 gallons of potable water over the next 2
hours to enable us to get through the night.
Please continue to minimize
any water use until further notice. The
discovery, and the subsequent valving off, of the leak discovered on Borley
Road this evening, is helping to raise the reservoir level, but the level is
still quite low. If the reservoir empties, the distribution system could become
depressurized to the extent that a boil order would have to be put in place.
Patrons on lower Borley
Road and Chelsea will have their service interrupted until that discovered leak
can be repaired. That repair will begin after the raw water intake main repair is completed.
The District will notify all
Patrons when the repair is complete and the system has recovered sufficiently
for resuming normal water use.
Please check the KCWD#1 blog at www.kcwd1.blogspot.com for updates, and let your neighbors know about this water system emergency,
as not all Patrons have subscribed to the emergency notification system or blog.
Thank you.
