Overview

• Town officials ordered all businesses to close and placed residents under a mandatory order limiting water use to emergencies only.
• Mayor Darrin Bent said a leaking main was detected around 12:30 p.m. between Three Arm Pond and Three Island Pond, which feed the town’s storage tanks serving roughly 27,000 to 30,000 people.
• Officials warned the community could run out of water within two to three hours on Tuesday evening and said restoration timelines remain unclear.
• Crews expect repair work to extend into Wednesday, followed by additional time to refill and recharge municipal tanks before normal service can resume.
• Fire departments have emergency water set aside with tanker support from neighboring communities, and St. John’s Regional Water Authority says the issue is isolated to C.B.S. while joint response teams work the fix.