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Show Faucets Dry Up Friday In South Park City Friday, August 7 at 6 p.m. many residents found merely a trickle of water if anything coming from their faucets in old town. Daly Avenue residents had complained all day of low pressure in their pipes and elsewhere around town people complained of "bubbles" in their water and also of low pressure. Water Superintendent Travis Black said the water problems Friday were due to a series of "unrelated" incidents that ' began Thursday. He admitted the problems were worst in South Park City where residents were indeed out of water for a time Friday evening. Nothing went right Thursday according to Black. A main water line broke on Upper Park Avenue and a contractor cut through another line at the Park Station construction site. Also a power outage knocked out three pump stations and a joint leak was discovered at Main and First streets. "All those problems plus a heavy consumer demand for watering that day drained our reservoirs so low that we just couldn't adequately recover by the time the watering demand picked up again on Friday," said Black. He adds the , system recovered a "little" Thursday night but it wasn't ' enough to sustain the reservoirs through peak periods of water usage Friday. "Friday evening the Empire and Woodside reservoirs were nearly dry and we couldn't pump water from others fast enough," he said. Black concludes the "mischievious" tampering with hydrants and pressure reducing valves (see related story) had little to do with the water problems Friday. |