PORT ANGELES — The city’s Stage 4 water emergency alert was lifted at noon Thursday after the 7-million-gallon Peabody Heights Reservoir was refilled.
The broken water main near Olympic National Park headquarters that prompted the City Council to declare the water emergency on Tuesday was fixed, pressure-tested and declared operable late Wednesday.
That allowed for the refilling of the Peabody reservoir on Viewcrest Street about a quarter-mile above the national park headquarters building at 600 E. Park Ave.
Thursday’s end of the water emergency also means the city’s water supply was restored to Clallam County Public Utility District customers east of the city limit.
The PUD had declared an equivalent Stage 3 water shortage for its Gales and Fairview water systems that serve a 23-square-mile unincorporated area.
Those systems use water purchased wholesale from the city.
‘Outstanding efforts’
“All citizens are to be congratulated for their outstanding efforts in conserving water during this emergency,” City Public Works Director Glenn Cutler said.
The City Council ordered indoor water restrictions and outdoor water curtailment after the early Tuesday pipeline break spilled an estimated 3.8 million gallons down Park and Vashon avenues to Peabody Creek — sweeping through 10 homes during about 90 minutes.
The 3.8 million gallons would fill about 19 William Shore municipal swimming pools.
