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Update on North Side water outage
Some customers may experience discolored water. However, there is no impact to public health. The yellowish tint is due to naturally occurring minerals which were stirred in the iron pipe of the water main.
Customers who wish to, may "self-flush" the line by turning on cold water full force from the bathtub faucet until the water runs clear. This process could take approximately 15 minutes. Do not run hot water, as stirred up sediment can cause damage to water heaters.
Residents can pick up...
Water main repairs call for water conservation
Gallup residents are encouraged to conserve water by any reasonable means necessary as repairs are made to a major 16-inch water main to the Grandview water tank.
The City of Gallup is issuing an emergency declaration restricting certain water uses.
Outdoor irrigation at City facilities is prohibited.
Outdoor irrigation and outdoor water use by residents and commercial businesses is prohibited.
The washing of automobiles, trucks, trailers, boats, airplanes or other mobile equipment is prohibited, unless the washing of vehicles/mobile equipment is done at commercial car washes.
The restrictions will remain in effect through June 16, unless they are extended.
The NM Dept. of Health offers vaccine incentive
New Mexicans can schedule appointments online.
The NMDOH has set up a way to schedule the second dose of the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine by June 17 , or the Johnson and Johnson vaccine by that same date.
For people needing their first vaccine, either Pfizer of Moderna, they can make appointments as well. But will not be eligible for the incentive.
To be...
Broadening students’ horizons
That is the motto that guides the Rehoboth Christian School’s new sixth grade program.
Sixth grade science teachers Kate Poortenga and Michael Baldonado started a new RCS curriculum known as “High Desert Horizons” three years ago.
Poortenga told the Sun the idea is to use the neighborhooc as a learning tool for students. She explained that this is a way for them to learn from people in the region and also from the land.
“If we understand the corners that we have in this world, we can then use that to understand the rest of our world,” she said.
In the past the students...
A century of federal indifference left generations of Navajo homes without running water
By Elizabeth Miller
New Mexico In Depth
April 12, 2021
With water would come a greater chance of development in economically depressed communities in a corner of the state that is threatened with significant job losses due to the shuttering of several major employers. Tohatchi could add a supermarket, a restaurant, a fire department, a police station, or emergency services. The start-up Red Willow Farm could produce crops that would spare people a drive to Farmington, 90 minutes away. The footprint of an old boarding school could be converted into an office complex or housing for doctors and nurses who drive from Gallup to work in...
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