after a burst pipe led to significant flooding<\/a> and required firefighters to rescue 13 people from vehicles stuck in the rushing water. <\/p>\nThe city lifted the advisory late Sunday after testing confirmed the water met all health and quality standards.<\/p>\n
Despite the advisory being lifted, the city is still urging Calgarians to continue to limit their water use. As of Saturday, the city’s water use sat at 495 million litres used \u2014 higher than the city’s target of 485 million litres.<\/p>\n
The city is also bracing for higher demand as students return to school and others to work on Monday. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe urgent need to reduce our water use still exists today,\u201d Sue Henry, Calgary Emergency Management Agency chief, said in a city statement. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are still asking Calgarians to conserve water, whether that means a shorter shower or fewer flushes, there are many ways we can all ensure our water system remains stable while crews work on this critical repair.\u201d<\/p>\n
Single lane re-opens on 16th Ave.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the busier morning commute, the city has re-opened one eastbound lane on 16th Avenue N.W. for the first time since the feeder main break.<\/p>\n
Drivers can access the lane going east from Sarcee Trail. The westbound lanes between 49th Street N.W. and Sarcee Trail N.W. remain closed.<\/p>\n
The city is asking drivers to consider alternate routes when travelling through the area, as construction work is ongoing.<\/p>\n
City crews continued their work Sunday, removing water from the site and excavating the damaged section. The pipe removal phase of the repair got underway Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Officials still do not know what is behind the city’s second catastrophic water main break in less than two years.\u00a0 <\/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.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-217399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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