{"id":131376,"date":"2026-01-21T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131376\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T03:53:08","slug":"el-paso-water-main-break-drains-15-million-gallons-bill-credit-considered-for-residents-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/131376\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Water main break drains 15 million gallons, bill credit considered for residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso Water has reported a staggering loss of 15 million gallons of water following last week&#8217;s massive main break in Northeast El Paso. <\/p>\n<p>CEO John Balliew informed the City Council that the rupture drained 15 reservoirs, equivalent to nearly 23 Olympic-sized swimming pools. <\/p>\n<p>During the council meeting, Rep. Josh Acevedo questioned Balliew&#8217;s absence during the crisis. <\/p>\n<p>Balliew responded, &#8220;I was around, right? So it&#8217;s all of publicly, publicly and private. Was there? What I was trying to do was concentrate on the budget.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He explained that Gilbert Trejo, who oversees the response team, managed the situation effectively while Balliew focused on budget preparations. <\/p>\n<p>In a potential relief for the 100,000 residents affected by the outage, the utility is exploring a bill credit to compensate those impacted.<\/p>\n<p>The failure exposed vulnerabilities in a 1950s-era system design.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-lifts-boil-water-notice-addresses-system-vulnerabilities?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Water main break exposes vulnerabilities in El Paso&#8217;s 1950s-era system design<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso Water has reported a staggering loss of 15 million gallons of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-131376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}