{"id":484557,"date":"2026-02-22T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484557\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:15:07","slug":"water-conservation-order-lifted-after-yellow-breeches-creek-contamination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484557\/","title":{"rendered":"Water conservation order lifted after Yellow Breeches Creek contamination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZOJVNMUC7ZBSHGKU5HGQ4GOGHA\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/news\/2026\/02\/pennsylvania-american-water-issues-mandatory-conservation-order-for-42000-customers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/news\/2026\/02\/pennsylvania-american-water-issues-mandatory-conservation-order-for-42000-customers.html\">mandatory water conservation order<\/a> for 42,000 central Pa. residents was lifted at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"6HK233EJWRCLBMAXKHDRD7R3WI\">Pennsylvania American Water put the order in place for its Mechanicsburg water system on Saturday when the company\u2019s West Shore Water Treatment Plant was taken offline because of upstream contamination on the Yellow Breeches Creek. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XON4US7V6FCO3BKYHC3IFQ4ARU\">Production was restored at the plant after acceptable test results and approval from the state Department of Environmental Protection. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BHRJ5RGMSRGC7EQFEH4AYQ3VFA\">Drinking water is safe, and normal water use can now be resumed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YONNE7XVWZBQ5HRKLRX4RXVEAM\">The Mechanicsburg water system includes parts of Silver Spring Township, Hampden Township, Lower Allen Township, Lemoyne Borough, Wormleysburg Borough, East Pennsboro Township, New Cumberland Borough, Fairview Township, Shiremanstown Borough, Camp Hill Borough and Newberry Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BVCGJ26GDNHZHIYTYN6K2FJR3A\">Customers were asked to reduce their use by 10% to 15% on Saturday night. The company increased production at its Silver Spring Water Treatment Plant to help combat the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mandatory water conservation order for 42,000 central Pa. residents was lifted at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Pennsylvania American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-484557","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\/484557","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=484557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}