{"id":2661,"date":"2025-10-14T15:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2661\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:41:30","slug":"fort-lauderdale-water-color-change-due-to-work-on-water-center-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2661\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale water color change due to work on water center \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The water in Fort Lauderdale may change color beginning on Monday due to work on a new water center, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortlauderdale.gov\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/8012\/16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">city officials announced. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city said it was preparing to bring the new Prospect Lake Clean Water Center online in fall 2026.<\/p>\n<p>As part of that work, starting Monday, crews will &#8220;flush raw water piping at the Prospect Wellfield to clean the system and remove sand, grit, and other debris. This step is essential to ensure high-quality water from the new facility once it is fully operational.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During that process and through next year, the Fiveash Water Treatment Plant will not have access to certain wells. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some wells with naturally higher organic content will need to be used, which may cause your water to appear slightly different than usual,&#8221; the city said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>Is my water safe to drink in Fort Lauderdale?<\/p>\n<p>Yes. City officials said despite the color change, the water remains safe to drink and meets all primary drinking water standards.<\/p>\n<p>When will the water color go back to normal in Fort Lauderdale?<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the color change is temporary and will improve once the new plant is operational in fall 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Why is Fort Lauderdale working on the water center?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This work is a critical step in upgrading our infrastructure to deliver the highest-quality water to every home and business in Fort Lauderdale and surrounding municipalities,&#8221; officials wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The water in Fort Lauderdale may change color beginning on Monday due to work on a new water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}