South Hero water shortage resolved

SOUTH HERO, Vt. (WCAX) — Officials in South Hero late Tuesday said their water system is fixed. It comes after the town for the past two days asked residents to conserve water after supplies there were dangerously low.

South Hero residents were Monday to turn off that tap so the town doesn’t run out of drinking water.

“This is not good,” said Ken Little when we spoke to him earlier Tuesday. He sits on the board of the Fourth Fire District and said more water was going out of their system than coming in. They are not clear on the exact cause, but say the problem has been exacerbated by the scorching temperatures this week and more people using water. “We are probably running in the extreme — 40 gallons a minute more output than usual. Well, that’s five to six people watering their gardens full tilt.”

The goal is to have all the filters running to balance out the demand. But in the meantime, Little says they needed resident to keep their water use to a need-only basis.

Down the road at Two Heroes Brewery, crews are hard at work. “Summer is a busy season, so we’re just constantly playing catch up,” said the brewery’s Daren Orr. He says brewing beer means using water — a lot of it. Luckily, they concluded most of their operations earlier in the week. “We kind of got lucky because the schedule was a little light today. So, it could have been worse, for sure.”

Orr says they hope the water issue resolves itself soon. “I’d have to do some rescheduling, for sure,” he said.

After initially saying the water fix was expected by Friday, town officials say it was resolved Tuesday afternoon.

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