{"id":354242,"date":"2025-12-17T14:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354242\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T14:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T14:43:15","slug":"independence-water-pressure-restored-boil-advisory-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354242\/","title":{"rendered":"Independence water pressure restored, boil advisory remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; After a water service disruption caused schools, courthouses and other businesses to close on Monday, the City of Independence says water pressure is back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a release sent early Tuesday, power was restored to a transformer at the Courtney Bend Water Treatment Plant around 7 p.m. the night prior. Water started pumping hours later and ran steadily throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Independence is no longer using KC Water, and it is working to refill its reservoirs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Although pressure is back, a boil advisory remains in place. The City said it collected 16 water samples from across the city, but the results are pending.<\/p>\n<p>Closures \/ Delays<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Independence School District is set to return to classes Tuesday, as is the Oak Grove School District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Truman Library is typically open 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Monday Through Friday, but will open two hours late at 11 a.m. to allow its water pressure to return to normal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) &#8211; After a water service disruption caused schools, courthouses and other businesses to close on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[176028,192,28615,176029,176031,176027,98521,176030,32967,17335,79],"class_list":["post-354242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-boil-advisory","tag-environment","tag-independence","tag-independence-boil-advisory","tag-independence-school-district","tag-independence-water","tag-kc","tag-kc-water","tag-kck","tag-kcmo","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354242","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=354242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}