The El Dorado Irrigation District is asking Diamond Springs residents to reduce water use Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning, while work is under way to repair a water-main leak.
Repairs to the Diamond Springs water main will begin about 8 p.m. Wednesday.
"The less use there is during the repair, the less chance there is of creating an outage," Tom McKinney, the district's director of operations, said in a news release. "We're hoping that the work will take only a few hours, but there's a possibility that repairs could be more extensive."
He said the district wants to complete the work before the Thanksgiving holiday, but the repair schedule depends on the weather. The work is planned at night to reduce inconvenience for customers, he said.
The district will use its customer notification call-out system Monday morning to alert up to 3,000 customers and remind them to use water sparingly Wednesday evening. A map of the potentially affected area will be posted on the district's Web site.
If an advisory to boil water becomes necessary after the work begins, additional calls will be made Wednesday evening to customers who would be affected. The state requires boil water advisories when outages, or greatly reduced pressure, occurs because of planned maintenance or unexpected incidents such as sudden line breaks. The district then must take water samples and wait for results before notifying customers that the advisory has been lifted.
Call The Bee's Cathy Locke, (916) 321-1051.
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