Bethel’s hauled water deliveries scheduled for Oct. 28 may be delayed, according to Acting City Manager Pete Williams. Williams said that many of the city’s utility truck drivers have been working since the evening of Oct. 27, when the sewer lift station in Bethel Heights Subdivision stopped working.
The lift station is what pumps the city’s piped sewage from an intermediary tank into the sewage lagoon. Williams said that workers had been installing improvements at the lift station when the pipes stopped working. In order to prevent sewage from seeping onto the street, the city’s utility workers started evacuating the waste into hauled sewer trucks. Williams said that stopgap system will continue until the pipes are permanently fixed. He said that could optimistically be later in the evening on Oct. 28.
Williams said that he has not heard reports of any sewage spills. The city is requesting that residents on piped water and sewer limit their water usage so less waste water gets into the system. Williams said that the water outage that had been planned in Bethel Heights for Oct. 28 has been postponed.
