{"id":259848,"date":"2026-04-21T18:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T18:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T18:36:11","slug":"el-paso-water-cleans-ramada-drive-wastewater-overflow-caused-by-rags-and-wipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259848\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Water cleans Ramada Drive wastewater overflow caused by rags and wipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso Water crews responded Tuesday night to a wastewater overflow on Ramada Drive, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The utility said the incident was not caused by a wastewater line break. Crews cleaned and disinfected the area.<\/p>\n<p>After investigating, crews determined the overflow was caused by an accumulation of rags and wipes inside the wastewater line.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Water urged customers to flush only toilet paper and to avoid flushing wipes, even those labeled \u201cflushable.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The utility said wipes, hair, cotton swabs, paper towels and other household products can clog pipes and lead to wastewater overflows.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso Water shared the video below on what happens when rags and wipes are flushed:<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/horizon-city-police-dea-target-vape-shops-in-operation-420-thc-sales-crackdown?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Horizon City police, DEA target vape shops in Operation 420 THC sales crackdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.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 crews responded Tuesday night to a wastewater overflow on Ramada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-259848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259848","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=259848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}