{"id":846675,"date":"2026-09-13T19:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846675\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:24:19","slug":"childress-declares-local-disaster-as-city-left-without-safe-water-amidst-extreme-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/846675\/","title":{"rendered":"Childress declares local disaster as city left without safe water amidst extreme drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHILDRESS, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The City of Childress declared a local state of disaster Friday amidst the area’s ongoing drought conditions<\/a> that have left the entire city under a boil water notice since Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The municipality issued a local state of disaster on Friday, Sept. 11 saying<\/a> the city has suffered widespread threat to life and property due to evaporated disinfectant residuals.<\/p>\n

Disinfectant residuals are used to keep city water safe. The proclamation cites “extreme heat, high ground temperatures, and ongoing drought conditions” as the cause for the disinfectants evaporating. <\/p>\n

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This has left residents under a city-wide boil water notice<\/a> since Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The City is also under Stage 4 of their Drought Contingency Plan<\/a>, which declares an “emergency water shortage condition.” <\/a><\/p>\n

The emergency water shortage stems from current levels in Lake Greenbelt being extremely low, causing the Greenbelt Municipal Water Authority to place its customers under mandatory water rationing. <\/p>\n

On Friday, with the declaration, the city “determined that extraordinary measures must be taken to alleviate the suffering of people and to protect or rehabilitate property.”<\/p>\n

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In a social media post, Childress Mayor Cary Preston said the city “declared the local state of disaster because of the water issues” and boil water notice. <\/p>\n

He said, “this opens the door for assistance from the State of Texas.” <\/p>\n

Childress County Judge Kim Jones issued the same declaration for Childress County.<\/p>\n

The proclamation outlines the state’s 7-day timeframe from the date the declaration is filed. This timeframe may be extended by Childress’ city council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHILDRESS, Texas (KVII) \u2014 The City of Childress declared a local state of disaster Friday amidst the area’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-846675","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\/846675","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=846675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}