which was recently voted the best drinking water in Montana<\/a>. <\/p>\n“A little over a month ago,” explained Cardwell. “It ingested a bunch of sand and debris.” <\/p>\n
Cardwell said some of that debris, sand, and gravel traveled down the water lines, which destroyed well eight. <\/p>\n
“You can imagine, a pump that’s designed to move water doesn’t do well when it’s moving gravel.” <\/p>\n
Well five \u2014 the furthest southern well in Belgrade \u2014 is also currently offline. <\/p>\n
“We started getting some calls from citizens a few weeks ago of cloudy water,” said Cardwell. <\/p>\n
However, Cardwell added that once the city investigated the cloudy water, they realized it was caused by air getting into the water lines. <\/p>\n
“Obviously, we can realize this was a pretty drought-filled winter, and there might be some connections there,” he explained. <\/p>\n
Although Cardwell declared that there’s no air left in well five, he wanted to ensure that those who live in Belgrade know these problems are “production issues” not “water quality issues.”<\/p>\n
According to Cardwell, the city declared a state of emergency just to access the funds they needed to repair both wells. He made it clear that the emergency declaration has nothing to do with the water quality. <\/p>\n
While both wells are being repaired, Cardwell said there are water restrictions in place: Locals cannot water their lawns between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELGRADE \u2014 On Monday, the City of Belgrade declared a water system emergency after two out of nine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-687487","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\/687487","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=687487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}