{"id":557351,"date":"2026-03-24T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557351\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:21:13","slug":"calgary-edges-above-water-use-threshold-as-it-enters-3rd-week-of-water-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/557351\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary edges above water-use threshold as it enters 3rd week of water restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary&#8217;s water usage edged slightly over the 500-million-litre target on Sunday as the city enters week three of water restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s water use was 504 million litres, but Infrastructure Services general manager Michael Thompson said that total included five million litres used to refill a portion of the feeder main that did not require reinforcement, temporarily increasing water demand. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Which means [Calgarians] only used 499 million litres. We&#8217;re taking this as a win,&#8221; Thompson said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And while refilling this one part of the feeder main is a step in the right direction, we still have a way to go before our work is done. We can&#8217;t return the feeder main to service until all the reinforcement work is complete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cloudy water expected for some Calgarians<\/p>\n<p>Residents in Calgary&#8217;s north may notice their drinking water is a bit cloudy tomorrow, Thompson said, as a repaired valve at the Shaganappi pump station is reconnected to the water system, pending water quality testing.<\/p>\n<p>The water is safe to consume and the cloudiness will be temporary, the city said.<\/p>\n<p>While concrete work on the nine sections of the Bearspaw south feeder main is now complete, the city is still about two weeks away from lifting water restrictions when reinforcement work is expected to wrap up.<\/p>\n<p>Over the coming days, crews will continue backfilling the remaining sections of pipe as the curing process is completed. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The City of Calgary says it is about two weeks away from completing reinforcement work on the Bearspaw south feeder main and lifting water restrictions,.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774351273_857_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3333333333333333\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>The City of Calgary says it is about two weeks away from completing reinforcement work on the Bearspaw south feeder main and lifting water estructions,. (City of Calgary)<\/p>\n<p>The city said lane closures remain in place along 16th\u00a0Avenue N.W. and additional closures that had been scheduled for this week have been postponed to next week.<\/p>\n<p>This round of water restrictions began March 9 as the city halted flow on its key Bearspaw south feeder main to reinforce it after it suffered two major breaks since 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The city continues to urge Calgarians to save 25 litres of water per person, per day by flushing toilets only when needed, limiting showers to three minutes or less, and running dishwashers and washing machines only with full loads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-557351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557351","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=557351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}