{"id":663797,"date":"2026-05-12T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663797\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T05:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:30:10","slug":"winnipegs-water-main-flushing-to-resume-may-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663797\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg&#8217;s Water Main Flushing to Resume May 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"et_pb_title_meta_container\">May 11, 2026 11:46 AM | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219997\" class=\"wp-image-219997 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pexels-haberdoedas-33863759-e1778517933467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-219997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A water main. (Pexels\/Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg\u2019s water main flushing for 2026 will resume starting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Crews will start in St. Boniface and St. Boniface East before spending the rest of spring and summer working their way around the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlushing water mains lets us test the water distribution system to make sure it\u2019s running smoothly and reliably,\u201d said Mike Szmon, manager of Water Services. \u201cIt\u2019s routine but important work that helps the system stay in good shape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year, crews will concentrate on St. Vital North, St. Vital South, Transcona and parts of River East.<\/p>\n<p>City crews will notify streets being affected by flushing two to four days before they begin, said the city.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Want to see more of our stories on Google?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 11, 2026 11:46 AM | News A water main. (Pexels\/Supplied) Winnipeg\u2019s water main flushing for 2026 will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,209503,22073],"class_list":["post-663797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-city-of-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663797","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=663797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}