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Polson declares water emergency

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Polson declares water emergency
Polson declares water emergency

Close to 60 homes and Poulshut off Monday morning.

Iwe want to be able to provof our utility customers,fire protection concerns fas well.

Poulsen city Manathe city issued a water emprohibiting the watering owashing vehicles and othertwo days later, close to 6and had their water shut owater reserves reached crihad to do that, turn off aand and so they are now wiMe says the city's water sseven wells, he says an exwater due to the record nuPoulsen this year, coupledhas led to the city's wateproducing about 800,000 gatells us that about 250,00uses um That's a whole lotout of our system.

Poulsenstream lives in one of thewater.

He said the water sto become a yearly occurrewas disappointed the cityheads up before shutting othe unfortunate part was tus in advance that they wething.

So we had no chanceand things like that and ithem because we noticed thagain.

Miss expects the waremain in place for the foHe says, making sure the cfor fire protection is a tbackup plans at this timefor fighting fires dependiof the community it was tobut we want to make that aa safety standpoint free wservices are available for

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