Originally published in the Yellowstone County News print edition
HUNTLEY — The Huntley water depot was out of order again this week, leaving customers without water and Huntley water and sewer district employees frustrated.
District manager T.J. Mueller said Wednesday that he thinks the most recent outage at the coin-operated depot on North Canal Drive in Huntley was caused by a vehicle hitting the downspout, and breaking the supply pipe, probably at night, since the security camera didn’t catch it.
Mueller said he replaced the pipe with a brand-new one on Sunday afternoon, but it was torn off again Monday night.
“It’s kind of aggravating,” Mueller said. Whoever broke the newly installed pipe took it with them, he said, so he has to install another one, work he was hoping to complete on Wednesday.
He said received an angry text from Andrea McClenning, who got sprayed with water Monday night when she went to fill her tank, but said she is “not as mad as me.”
In fact, McClenning said Wednesday that she’s not angry at Mueller but she hopes that the water district can fix the depot so it works reliably.
“It’s really inefficient,” McClenning said. “They just need to fix it properly.”
She said the depot “goes in spurts, for a while it works great,” then it works about half the time. Since she gets water about three times a week, it would be nice to depend on it, she said.
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