{"id":312209,"date":"2025-11-28T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312209\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T12:07:09","slug":"torbay-to-pump-water-into-north-pond-following-summer-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/312209\/","title":{"rendered":"Torbay to Pump Water into North Pond Following Summer Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/north-pond-torbay-water-levels-3.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Torbay to Pump Water into North Pond Following Summer Drought\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Low water levels at North Pond which serves Torbay in September (Town of Torbay)<\/p>\n<p>Water levels are rising at North Pond in Torbay, but the town is taking additional measures to ensure that levels are back to normal before freezing winter temperatures set in. <\/p>\n<p>Mayor Craig Scott says the pond, which provides water to three schools, some seniors homes and approximately one third of all homes serviced by the town, <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2025\/09\/23\/torbay-warning-about-extremely-low-water-levels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">had dropped to about 8 feet below normal by the end of September<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Scott says while the pond has risen a couple of feet thanks to recent wet weather, it needs to be higher before the pond freezes over. <\/p>\n<p>He says the town is currently working on pumping water from nearby Whiteway Pond to help prevent any possible disruption to the water supply. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re sourcing all the material we need now to be able to do that, and hopefully we\u2019re going to get that started sooner than later.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Scott says the town originally considered pumping water from a river into North Pond, but PFAS \u2013 a problem in areas near St. John\u2019s International Airport \u2013 were detected in the water.  Scott says the water in Whiteway Pond was tested and is clean.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Low water levels at North Pond which serves Torbay in September (Town of Torbay) Water levels are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-312209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}