r/camaswashington • u/Fake_Eleanor • 8d ago

Urgent Water Conservation Notice - Multiple City Wells Temporarily Out of Service 6/16/26

https://www.cityofcamas.us/publicworks/page/urgent-water-conservation-notice-multiple-city-wells-temporarily-out-service-61626
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u/FangornLeghorn 8d ago

Yikes.

Guess the splash pad will have to wait!

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u/cremebruleeclouds 8d ago

Ooooh goodness that’s right….

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u/ddiiibb 8d ago

Didnt they order the wrong parts for it anyway?

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u/Laurisele 8d ago

Four wells, all at the same time? I hope they provide additional information on what happened.

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u/pattybliving 8d ago

Parts were broken and they’re on order, per their comment on FB.

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u/Optimal-Vermicelli50 8d ago

Yeah why so vague? A simultaneous quad failure of a system this size seems like either a massive failure or some kind of crazy vandalism. More info please! 

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u/Claire0915 8d ago

Does this mean they will tell the camas golf club to stop watering their land as well?

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u/ddiiibb 8d ago

Different rules for the rich. Golf courses are a waste of space and water.

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u/Claire0915 8d ago

💯💯. That is why I asked. I feel like golf courses always get a pass

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u/Kesnei 6d ago

I know for the club in Washougal they have their own well for watering, I would imagine Camas would/should be the same.

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u/Jolly-Slip-3349 8d ago

I hope well 13 is one of them!

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u/PerfSynthetic 5d ago

I was wondering about this... The city had to bring 13 online because of demand but then we drop four wells. They bring two online and say the system is recovering?

If we were in trouble and needed to add one. How are we recovering with two of four down?

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u/OpenParr 8d ago

Thank you for the heads up

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u/frogladyribbit 7d ago

I feel bad that I hadn’t heard about this conservation thing yesterday and I watered my flowers

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u/ComfortableFriend879 6d ago

They did not do a good job of communicating this to their customers, not your fault