WEST GLACIER – Glacier National Park reports Logan Pass is currently experiencing low water levels, resulting in a water supply that can’t support the number of visitors the area receives daily. <\/p>\n
Visitors may expect to see changes to the times plumbed toilets will be available because of the shortage.<\/p>\n
The water for the Logan Pass area, which includes the plumbed bathrooms and the water filling station, comes from a basin that is fed by a melting ice field. <\/p>\n
While rain helps to refill the basin during the summer, the park is observing that the water is being used faster than it is replaced. <\/p>\n
Logan Pass normally uses 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of water a day, but this summer, the park has seen that Logan Pass uses an average of 8,000 gallons a day.<\/p>\n
Visitors may see intermittent periods when plumbed bathrooms will be closed in an effort to conserve water. If the closure occurs, the initial bathroom closure will be from 5:30 pm to 8:30 am. The closure throughout the night is to refill the water tank. <\/p>\n
The vault toilet building and multiple portable toilets will be open for visitor use. The water filling station will remain open for now.<\/p>\n
While the water at Logan Pass has historically turned off early to mid-September to prepare for winter conditions, this year, the water will be turned off for the season on September 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST GLACIER – Glacier National Park reports Logan Pass is currently experiencing low water levels, resulting in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,70279,63092,68717,3326,79,20432],"class_list":["post-106098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-flathead","tag-glacier-national-park","tag-logan-pass","tag-montana","tag-science","tag-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}