Arkansas City issued the following announcement on June 6.
The City of Arkansas City is continuing its annual fire hydrant flushing program, with work proceeding all across south-central Arkansas City starting this week.
The Environmental Services Department today began flushing Section 3 and then moves to 4, which contains 17 fire hydrants for section 3 and 148 fire hydrants for section 4. Section 3 will be from south of Madison Avenue, between A and First streets — mainly along the South Summit Street corridor. Section 4 will be along and north of West Fifth Avenue, north to West Kansas Avenue, and east of First Street.
Flushing will continue in Section 3 & 4 th
rough at least June 27th. All flushing will be conducted between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays only.
Water customers in this area might experience temporary discoloration or low water pressure during this fire hydrant flushing program.
Most discoloration can be corrected by flushing a faucet for a few minutes, but if flushing does not correct the problem or if you continue to notice a pressure loss, call (620) 441-4480 (Office) or (620) 441-4492 (After 4 PM On Call Phone.)
The Environmental Services Department advises that you do not wash laundry if your water is discolored because that can stain the items permanently.
If laundry does become stained, please leave the items wet, call one of the numbers above and a detergent designed to remove the stains will be delivered to your address.
“Thank you for your cooperation and patience during this annual fire hydrant flushing program.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Arkansas City
