{"id":693424,"date":"2026-06-09T12:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693424\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T12:03:15","slug":"water-main-rupture-leads-to-voluntary-water-conservation-efforts-in-johnston-county-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/693424\/","title":{"rendered":"Water main rupture leads to voluntary water conservation efforts in Johnston County :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Johnston County water districts were asked to conserve<br \/>\nwater for 24 hours after a water main ruptured Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, crews damaged the water main while<br \/>\nworking at the Neuse River Bridge reconstruction site on US Highway 301 in<br \/>\nSmithfield. <\/p>\n<p>Johnston County Public Utilities asked residents in the following<br \/>\nwater districts to limit non-essential water usage:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIngramsMeadowSoutheast Lowgrounds <\/p>\n<p>This notice is temporary, county officials said. <\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, you are asked to call Johnston<br \/>\nCounty Public Utilities at 919-989-5075 or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__http:\/www.johnstonnc.gov\/utilities__;!!M5erwxGTI6mlTHJSECWB8LY!Exu56nfO6nvDXp1VqgselfkgckbzZjdLefI57d2UIEQtLI28xVyeUM-2RBwd3Nv5SgHDWAPQ7O35eaNMyHo1rGHn5U0VzjQ$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.johnstonnc.gov\/utilities<\/a>\u00a0for the full policy and<br \/>\nwater conservation suggestions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Johnston County water districts were asked to conserve water for 24 hours after a water main ruptured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,159105,79,29485,18408],"class_list":["post-693424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-johnston-county","tag-science","tag-water-main","tag-water-main-break"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693424","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=693424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}