New concerns over major water mains mean no easing of outdoor restrictions, city says

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Calgarians’ frustrations over outdoor water restrictions in place for more than a month are rising along with searing summer temperatures. But on Wednesday, a city official gave no indication when those restrictions will ease, particularly given new concerns over the viability of water mains in Calgary’s northwest. Failures in pipe reinforcing wires, the type that snapped during the initial rupture of …

Irrigation companies urge city to lift outdoor water restrictions so employees can work, get paid

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The head of the association that represents irrigation companies in the Calgary area says many employees in the industry have been without work since the city’s outdoor water restrictions were imposed in early June — and they are not sure how much longer people can survive without a paycheque. The Stage 4 water restrictions that prohibited watering lawns, gardens and …

‘It’s frankly killing us’: Outdoor water users plead for end of restrictions in Calgary

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Calgary’s irrigation industry says it’s wilting under the city’s one-month-long outdoor water use ban and is pleading with the city to end it. Since the prohibition took effect, the sector, which comprises about 300 companies, has been throttled and has no idea when the ban will end, said Kyle Brost, president of the Canadian Prairie chapter of the Irrigation Association. “The …

We want to work, let us get back to work. No support for hardest hit by Feeder Main Break

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The Canadian Prairie Chapter of the Irrigation Association requests the City of Calgary, Airdrie,Chestermere, and Strathmore to remove outdoor water restrictions. These bans are drasticallyhurting Irrigation employees. Employees of irrigation companies have gone 27 days without work as the Outdoor Water Banshave resulted in their jobs being suspended with no work and no hours. Many of our industryemployees are in …