Water emergency in Polson, Montana
8/5/2021 12:15:06 PM
CATEGORIES:
Relief, Response & Restrictions
Society & Public Health
Water Supply & Quality
AFFECTED AREAS:
Polson, MT
Start Date: 7/26/2021
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A water emergency was declared for Polson as the town dealt with very high demand and low supply. Water to 60 homes was shut off on July 26 after water restrictions that banned lawn watering and car washing did not allow the community’s critically low reserve tanks to refill.
Polson gets its water from an aquifer. Of the 800,000 gallons produced per day, only 550,000 gallons return to the wastewater treatment plant, meaning that they were losing about 250,000 gallons, much of it presumably to lawn watering.
Mandatory water restrictions were enacted in Helena earlier in July, while Bozeman and Billings more recently adopted restrictions.
KUFM-FM Montana Public Radio (Missoula), July 26, 2021
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