{"id":394461,"date":"2026-01-08T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394461\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T04:30:10","slug":"water-problems-continue-in-delray-beach-city-extends-irrigation-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/394461\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Problems Continue In Delray Beach, City Extends Irrigation Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"915\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767846610_254_IMG_1791.png\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"Water System\" decoding=\"async\"   title=\"Water Problems Continue In Delray Beach, City Extends Irrigation Ban 1\"\/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"915\" height=\"620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767846610_874_IMG_1791.png\" alt=\"Water System\" class=\"wp-image-113833\" title=\"Water Problems Continue In Delray Beach, City Extends Irrigation Ban 2\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright \u00a9 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) \u2014 The major water main break over the weekend in the City of Delray Beach continues to be a problem. City officials late Wednesday extended the request for all residents to cease irrigation. Here\u2019s the official update:<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; The City of Delray Beach is extending the request for residents and businesses to pause all lawn and landscape irrigation for an additional 72 hours, as a precaution.<br \/>This helps prevent low water pressure and reduces the likelihood of a citywide boil water notice.<\/p>\n<p>What residents\/businesses should do (during the next 72 hours)<\/p>\n<p>Please stop all lawn and landscape irrigation\u00a0through Saturday, Jan. 10.<\/p>\n<p>What the City is doing<\/p>\n<p>To maintain reliable service during repairs, the City has temporarily opened emergency interconnections with neighboring utilities.<\/p>\n<p>The free chlorine period originally scheduled for\u00a0Monday, Jan. 5, 2026,\u00a0through Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, began early on\u00a0Saturday, Jan 3, 2026, to support system reliability during repairs.<\/p>\n<p>City staff is working diligently to restore normal operations and maintain safe, reliable water service. &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Have an announcement that&#8217;s not quite news? BocaNewsNow.com can help spread the word. <a href=\"https:\/\/bocanewsnow.com\/advertising\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE, LEARN MORE. <\/a> We have millions of page interactions each month. This is a great place for your press releases or advertisement.<\/p>\n<p>Sign Up Here for our free nightly newsletter and breaking news email alerts. <a href=\"https:\/\/bocanewsnow.com\/subscribe\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here. <\/a> We won&#8217;t spam you. Unsubscribe anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DELRAY BEACH, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright \u00a9 2026 MetroDesk Media, LLC) \u2014 The major water main break over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-394461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394461","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=394461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}