20-Mile Water expects some service back on Monday

March 19, 2017

Twenty Mile Water Association members have been without water since Saturday afternoon after a mudslide hit a creek, blocking a main system intake. There is also a line break somewhere in the system that needs to be located and repaired. Crews worked late into Saturday evening and were back at work early today, shoveling out the dam and getting a sufficient flow to refill the system, but work on finding the line break won't begin until Monday morning. Association officials expect to have service to some members by Monday, but full system restoration could take several days, depending on the location of the line break. When water is restored, members are asked to walk their properties along the course of buried water lines looking for water where it shouldn't be or water bubbling from the ground, which could help save time in locating the ruptured line. Those who spot such hydrologic activity are asked to contact association accountant Deborah Hernandez-Youngwirth, Youngwirth, Davis & Associates, at (208) 267-5166. Once water is restored, association members are advised to boil water before using it until the system's water is tested by the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality. Hernandez-Youngwirth said she will continue to provide updates as the system is brought back on line, and NewsBF will assist in getting word out, publishing notices as they come in.