*Urgent Message from City of Chadron Water Department – KCSR / KBPY - Chadrad
Urgent Message From City Of Chadron Water Department- UPDATED - KCSR / KBPY
The City of Chadron Water Department is asking all citizens to cease any unnecessary usage of water at this time. Due to an electrical issue at the City of Chadron’s Well fields, water restrictions need to be put in place for the entire city.
Please stop watering lawns, gardens and vehicles as soon as possible. General household usage of water is fine at this time.
According to Chadron City Manager Tom Menke, the issue stems from an outage reported by Northwest Rural Public Power District.
In a statement on social media, NRPPD says “A regulator in the Scott Substation has been disabled. Crews are on site and working to restore the substation. In order to complete the work, the entire Scott Substation will need to be shut down. It is expected to be off from approximately 2:30 pm until 7:30 pm today, July 10th.”
An update will be given as soon as this issue is fixed. Again, estimated time of this restriction is 5 to 6 hours.
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