Ponoka News Staff
Town crews were observed as being engaged in construction work just behind the arena and across the St. Augustine Catholic School on Saturday, March 12, a location which is close the point where a water line break next to the arena kept crews busy on Feb. 10.
The town said in a press release the crews could not find the source of the water leak in the area but contained it by isolating and turning off water to a section of the water line in the area.
The press release quoted Steve Wass, foreman of water and wastewater utilities for the town, as saying “Nobody in town, including the school, depends on that stretch of line for water service, so no one will be impacted by isolating the line, and nobody has been affected by the water leak.”
The Town Operations Department will reportedly use leak detection equipment to pinpoint the source of the leak and will repair it once the ground thaws. The PVC water line in question is said to be about 10 years old and regarded as “relatively new.”
This water leak is the third incident in about a month that saw town crews digging ground to fix leaks.