{"id":562023,"date":"2026-02-02T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/562023\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:45:10","slug":"extreme-cold-causing-water-treatment-issues-in-johnston-county-county-says-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/562023\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme cold causing water treatment issues in Johnston County, county says :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnston County leaders are asking residents to conserve water starting Monday due to issues at a county water treatment facility caused by a weekend snowstorm across the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to Johnston County Public Utilities, the county is experiencing treatment process interruptions at the Timothy G. Broome Water Treatment Plant due to extreme cold weather. The county declared a temporary water shortage advisory because of the intense cold weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/weather\/forecast-raleigh-durham-fayetteville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A intense cold snap\u00a0<\/a>moved into North Carolina over a week ago, bringing lows in the single digits and teens for many across the state, including Johnston County. Sky 5 flew over the treatment plant and saw snow and ice covering the water.<\/p>\n<p>The water shortage is not the only utility the snowstorm has affected. On Sunday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wral.com\/consumer\/5onyourside\/5-on-your-side-save-energy-costs-extreme-cold-february-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Duke Energy asked residents to conserve electricity between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Monday<\/a>\u00a0so their power grid would not be damaged during the cold snap.<\/p>\n<p>The county asked customers to avoid using water for &#8220;non-esssential uses.&#8221; According to the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, some residents can conserve water by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoid leaving water running while rinsing dishes.<\/li>\n<li>Keep a pitcher of cold water in your refrigerator.<\/li>\n<li>Take shorter showers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>County officials said they expect the water shortage to last for a day or two, but said they are working to fix the issue at the plant.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnston County leaders are asking residents to conserve water starting Monday due to issues at a county water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":562024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[3158,746,159,5313,67,132,68,527,12987],"class_list":["post-562023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-cold","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-severe-weather","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-water","tag-water-quality"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116003702333240142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562023","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=562023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}