The City of Hydaburg is scrambling to get the municipal water system operating again after it stopped working on Tuesday, leaving hundreds of residents without running water in the Prince of Wales Island community.
JUNEAU, Alaska - The City of Hydaburg is scrambling to get the municipal water system operating again after it stopped working on Tuesday, leaving hundreds of residents without running water.from the U.S. Census Bureau. Tony Stevens, a newly-elected council member, says that the school, health clinic, local business and hundreds of residents are all without drinking water.
Officials from the State Emergency Operations Center held a call with local representatives from Hydaburg on Thursday to understand the scale of the problem. The Southeast community’s emergency come as the Interior has beenTammy Helms of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said that a maintenance worker is offering assistance remotely. If the situation warrants it, someone could be sent to Hydaburg to help along with equipment, she added.
Ted Peele, a volunteer member of the Hydaburg emergency services team, said fire crews were drawing water from the river into a fire truck on Thursday morning to distribute around town, but not as drinking water. Tina Steffen, a co-owner of Annie Betty’s Bakery Cafe in Craig, has been trying to help. She owns another business called Rainforest Water which sells 5-gallon bottles of water.
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