Aye Carumba! Water, water

Lotta water issues lately. Glad everybody has been cool about it. When water mains break, not much you can do but fix 'em. We aren't really sure what is causing the issues. Might just be bad luck. It might be that because we are on rural water, in some parts of town, the water is flowing a different way, so that may be straining the pipes. (Normally water comes from the tower, and out and about. Our feed from rural water is coming up R77/Cottonwood, and feeding into the town that way)

Or it may be the dry conditions. Clay is drying up, and shifting, and that may strain the pipes. Really hope to get some rain, and soak up the ground. A problem for this winter would be dry ground, with cracks, allowing deeper freezes into the ground, which could break our mains. So we need rain just to make the soil more "normal".

I have been out walking, and often cross over Bear Creek on Maple. It is dried up, with just a few pools of water. In my 15 years here, I don't recall it ever being dried up, there has always been some kind of flow in it.

The water main issues have been a hot topic on Facebook. I run the "City of Roland" Facebook page. It has gotten a lot of new likes lately. We have been trying to keep the public up to date there, along with the city website, and the Twitter feed, and on the LED sign.

Story County Emergency Management helped us with press releases to get out to the media. I know our boil advisory was mentioned on WHO and KCCI TV, as well as WHO radio. I'm sure other places too. So I am appreciative of that agency.