HARDWICK – As town officials begin to utilize the new Hardwick Alert Notification System, residents received email and text alerts last Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday about repairs of a water leak under South Main Street in front of the Flower Basket.
photo by Paul Fixx
The alert system requires residents to sign up to receive email and text alerts. The information provided will be “used to communicate with the residents of Hardwick, including water and wastewater alerts, emergency response, and other town business. The main method of communication from the town will be via email,” notes the sign-up form.
Last week’s first alert, Wednesday morning, May 7, shared a notice to South Main Street water users indicating the possible disruption of water service beginning at 8 p.m.
On the next evening, an additional alert indicated, “Town of Hardwick water users will experience a reduction in pressure and volume after 9 p.m. tonight as our crew will need to shut the water system down briefly to repair a leak in the main waterline on South Main Street.”
Further details advised the area’s water users to “Please plan accordingly to minimize the disruption in your household,” saying, “The repair should take less than two hours once the water is shut off and service will be returned as soon as possible once the leak has been repaired.
Then, on Saturday evening, notice was sent to say, “The leak was stopped on Thursday night but crews did not have the parts to restore service to the affected building. The water system will be shutdown again at 10 p.m. tonight (5/10) so crews can finish the repair. Water system users will experience a reduction in pressure and volume after 10 p.m. tonight for approximately one hour. Please plan accordingly to minimize the disruption in your household. The system will return to normal once the work has been completed.”
Sign up for alerts on the town website at hardwickvt.gov/
Paul Fixx is editor of The Hardwick Gazette and lives in Hardwick.
