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Both Moose Jaw and Regina have asked residents to conserve water following an outage at the Buffalo Pound Water Treatment Plant.
According to the City of Moose Jaw, a power outage at the plant “has caused a reduction in the supply of water to its customers.”
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Carolyn Kalim, Regina’s director of water, waste and environment, urged residents and businesses to save water by cutting down on shower time, avoid washing vehicles, and only watering newly sodded lawns.
She said the outage happened around 9 p.m. on Tuesday.
Kalim said the voluntary measures are expected to last at least 24 hours, and possibly up to a few days, saying that the city will also lead by example in the meantime.
“The City of Regina is reducing its water by not watering parks with city water and only using water directly from our irrigation processes,” she said.
“We’re not washing our vehicles unless absolutely needed for health and safety reasons, we’re not performing street sweeping, and we’ve suspended our water main flushing activities.”
This is the second voluntary water conservation request made by the city this year, following another one in May due to upgrades at Buffalo Pound Treatment Plant.
Prior to that, Kalim said the city hadn’t requested a water restriction since 2015.
Regina’s water director said that Regina’s emergency water wells are in use to supply clean drinking water, although she said users might find some discoloration.
As was the case with the earlier conservation effort, Kalim said the city will resort to mandatory measures if the need arises.
“At that time, we’ll assess how much capacity we have in the system, and we’ll be able to give very specific directions to residents,” Kalim said.
“Should we get into that point, we are really grateful for all of the Regina residents who will follow these voluntary conservation measures and hopefully, then we will be able to move on and return to business as usual.”
Kalim said the city has contacted Regina’s top 50 water users and asked them to participate in the voluntary reduction as of Wednesday.
– With files from 980 CJME’s Daniel Reech
