The city's public works department has been handling three different water line breaks in the area, which has impacted water supply throughout the city.
“I don't have an exact number on which area and which customers are affected or how many,” Globe Public Works Director John Angulo said Tuesday morning. “Some people are almost out of water completely. Others have minimal pressure, but it is still feeding off the water that is gravity-fed off the Hagen tanks.”
On Sunday, a 12-inch line near Cutter well fields was damaged, which is one of two parallel transmission lines coming from the Cutter wells that feed the City of Globe water tank. Public works isolated the damaged line and continued feeding water through the secondary water line. This meant the city’s water pressure would be lower, but the water tanks would continue to fill off the secondary line.
Last night, around 10:30 p.m., the second 12-inch line broke. To make matters worse, the water tank monitoring system was still broken from the first storm that hit the area, Angulo said, meaning that it did not pick up the drainage on the tank.
“This morning we woke up to a busted 12-inch line, and the water tank had actually started basically draining itself without the system working,” Angulo said. “The water line that broke was the only one that was feeding Downtown Globe, or this whole area, really, so we've been running off of our water tanks right now.”
Yesterday morning, an eight-inch water line feeding into San Carlos Drive, also known as the Apache Peaks area, also broke, leaving those 24 residents without water as well.
Today, the public works team worked to repair the secondary 12-inch line. By the early evening, the repair was complete.
“That will start filling the tanks. It will start taking care of any low water pressure issues,” he said. “The rest of the system will be functional.”
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