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Cottonwood Shores residents and businesses (pictured here) will have to conserve water starting Wednesday night Nov. 11, due to a water plant repair issue. File photo
Cottonwood Shores residents are being asked to conserve water after a mishap at the city’s water treatment plant shut the plant down late Tuesday.
City Administrator J.C. Hughes said in an e-mail that a motor in the plant apparently vibrated enough to loosen a wire, which then short-circuited the motor and shut the plant down.
A contract with neighboring Horseshoe Bay provides the city with emergency water, but Hughes said residents should use strict conservation measures until the treatment plant is fixed.
A replacement motor is something “not normally found sitting n the street,” he said.
Hughes said if the motor can be replaced it could take abut five days. If a replacement must be modified to fit the plant, it cold take up to 10 days, he said.