Huntsville water supply leak located near filter plant
Dec 17, 2024, 7:00 AM | Updated: 4:53 pm
Huntsville crews believe they've discovered where the leak is that's deleted the city's water supply on Monday 16, 2024. (KSL TV)
(KSL TV)
HUNTSVILLE, Weber County – Huntsville water crews say they’ve located the source of a large water leak.
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According to Thom Summers, the leak is about 10 feet outside of the city’s water plant building.
In a Facebook post, Huntsville Mayor Richard Sorenson said Tuesday was a “great day in Huntsville.”
Sorenson told KSL that finding it so close to their building may seem odd.
“Our [water] line is about 4,000 feet in length, so it’s a little like looking for a needle in a haystack.”
A nearby stream also hampered the search for the water leak, Sorenson said.
“It was about 150 feet from a stream, so the groundwater was just taking it [the leaked water] to the stream,” Sorenson said.
How specialists found the Huntsville water leak
The water leak depleted the entire town’s water supply and left people without water since Friday. Leak detection specialists were testing pipes and trench digging over the weekend, and said the breakthrough was good news.
“Best I’ve seen in the five days I’ve been here,” Tana Kohler, a leak detection specialist with Cooper Con, said.
Crews used specialized microphones to listen to the underground pipes where water is flowing from the town’s treatment plant to the main storage tank, and crews think they finally found it.
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