CALGARY \u2014 Calgarians are on track to be free of water restrictions ahead of the upcoming Easter weekend.<\/p>\n
Michael Thompson, Calgary\u2019s general manager of infrastructure services, says repairs on an ailing water main are in the final stages, allowing restrictions to be lifted as early as Thursday.<\/p>\n
Crews have been working to reinforce nine sections of the Bearspaw South Feeder Main, which forced earlier rounds of restrictions after it ruptured in June 2024 and again in late December.<\/p>\n
The main supplies 60 per cent of the treated water to the city\u2019s 1.6 million residents.<\/p>\n
For the last three weeks, residents have been asked to take shorter showers, and reduce toilet flushes, laundry and dish loads. <\/p>\n
Thompson says water is now being tested to make sure it is safe but says the pipe remains at risk until work on a permanent replacement is completed by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause the existing pipe is terminally ill, there\u2019s increased risk of another breaking during pressure changes in the pipe,\u201d Thompson told reporters Monday. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe pipe can break without warning. We will be living with the risk that this existing pipe can break at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 30, 2026.<\/p>\n
Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Calgarians are on track to be free of water restrictions ahead of the upcoming Easter weekend.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-571638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571638","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=571638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}