{"id":115451,"date":"2025-08-03T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115451\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T11:24:12","slug":"macomb-officials-recommend-residents-conserve-water-after-multiple-water-main-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/115451\/","title":{"rendered":"Macomb officials recommend residents conserve water after multiple water main breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">MACOMB (WGEM) &#8211; The Macomb Public Works Department is asking residents to conserve water after multiple water main breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">City officials said residents and businesses should immediately limit using non-essential water as the breaks are impacting the local water supply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">They said at this time, there is no boil order in effect and conserving the water will help prevent them from issuing a system wide boil order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">City officials said they are working to locate and repair the breaks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">They recommend residents take the following actions: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"list | article-list\">\n<li>Postpone laundry, dishwashing, and other high-water-use activities<\/li>\n<li>Turn off irrigation systems and avoid outdoor watering<\/li>\n<li>Take shorter showers and reduce faucet use where possible<\/li>\n<li>Report visible leaks or breaks to [phone number or contact info]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe understand this is an inconvenience, and we appreciate everyone\u2019s patience and cooperation,\u201d said Alice Ohrtmann, Public Works Director. \u201cOur top priority is restoring full service as quickly and safely as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">They said they will provide updates on the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cityofmacomb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/cityofmacomb.com\/\">website<\/a> and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityofMacombIL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CityofMacombIL\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WGEM. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MACOMB (WGEM) &#8211; The Macomb Public Works Department is asking residents to conserve water after multiple water main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":115452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[72449,746,72450,72448,159,67,132,68,72447],"class_list":{"0":"post-115451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-boil-order","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-macomb-public-works-department","11":"tag-non-essential-water","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-water-main-breaks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114964585828200086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}