{"id":57091,"date":"2025-08-04T06:18:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57091\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T06:18:17","slug":"macomb-officials-lift-water-usage-advisory-after-water-main-break-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57091\/","title":{"rendered":"Macomb officials lift water usage advisory after water main break repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">MACOMB (WGEM) &#8211; The Macomb Public Works Department have announced the water main breaks are fixed and have lifted the water usage advisory. City officials thank residents for their patience during the repairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Saturday, city officials said residents and businesses were asked to immediately limit using non-essential water as the breaks are impacting the local water supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">City officials said at that time, there was no boil order in effect and conserving the water would help prevent them from issuing a system wide boil order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">City officials said they were working to locate and repair the breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">They recommended residents take the following actions: <\/p>\n<p>Postpone laundry, dishwashing, and other high-water-use activitiesTurn off irrigation systems and avoid outdoor wateringTake shorter showers and reduce faucet use where possibleReport visible leaks or breaks to [phone number or contact info]<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe understand this is an inconvenience, and we appreciate everyone\u2019s patience and cooperation,\u201d said Alice Ohrtmann, Public Works Director. \u201cOur top priority is restoring full service as quickly and safely as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They said they will provide updates on the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cityofmacomb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/cityofmacomb.com\/\">website<\/a> and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityofMacombIL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityofMacombIL\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WGEM. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MACOMB (WGEM) &#8211; The Macomb Public Works Department have announced the water main breaks are fixed and have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[43068,192,43069,43067,79,43066],"class_list":{"0":"post-57091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-boil-order","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-macomb-public-works-department","11":"tag-non-essential-water","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-water-main-breaks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57091","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=57091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}