CLYDE, Texas — The City of Clyde has been struggling with constant waterline breaks.
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KTXS spoke with some local businesses who told us how the water issues are impacting them.
“It affects our business because we, with the boil water notice going on, we can’t do our fountain drinks, our coffee, our cappuccino machine, our ice,” Ila Sartor, an employee at Anita Food Mart, said.
She said they have regulars who come to their store every day for their coffee and fountain drinks.
“So that drastically has dropped our sales on all four of those,” Sartor said. “Just because we are not able to sell it due to the boil water notice.”
Interim City Administrator of Clyde, Rodger Brown, told us that the city is working hard to get the water pipes fixed.
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“So we let our citizens know that there’s a boil water notice,” Brown said. “Right now, each time that we’ve had this break, we have such an amazing public works crew, these guys are on the job right away.”
He told us that the boil water notices should not last for too long.
“Now the idea of having to boil your water, that’s just a safety precaution and that has lasted days because once the pipe is fixed, once the problem is fixed, then we have to take samples and those samples go to a lab in Abilene,” Brown said. “It’s generally about 24 hours after we drop off the samples that we’ll get the clear notification that we can resend the boil water.”
Despite the water being usable after being boiled, local businesses, such as Anita Food Mart, are still heavily impacted by this.
“We can’t boil it because we have no efficient place to boil the water,” Sartor said. “To bring it back up here to be able to sell all the stuff for our customers.”
The City of Clyde is working diligently to repair these decade old pipes and are asking the people and businesses to just bare with them.