{"id":8770,"date":"2020-04-23T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2020-04-23T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:23:43","slug":"city-seeks-publics-help-with-safety-for-water-and-irrigation-utility-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/city-seeks-publics-help-with-safety-for-water-and-irrigation-utility-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"City Seeks Public\u2019s Help with Safety for Water and Irrigation Utility Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In its commitment to providing safe and reliable drinking water, the City of Yakima\u2019s Water\/Irrigation Division seeks the community\u2019s help to ensure safety for its workers as a precaution against COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are asking you to please give our staff the space they need to conduct their work by keeping a distance of at least six feet,\u201d said Assistant Public Works Director David Brown. \u201cOur staff is vital to keeping the water system operational, providing safe reliable drinking water and water for irrigation. Thank you for your continued cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Water\/Irrigation Division staff\u2019s continuing essential tasks include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Collecting routine monitoring samples<\/li><li>Staffing and monitoring the water treatment plant and process<\/li><li>Inspecting facilities<\/li><li>Routine maintenance<\/li><li>Emergency repairs<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/water-irrigation\/\">https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/water-irrigation\/<\/a> for more about the City of Yakima Water\/Irrigation Division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Water-Service-Safety-News-Release.pdf\">Water-Service-Safety-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Water-Service-Safety-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its commitment to providing safe and reliable drinking water, the City of Yakima\u2019s Water\/Irrigation Division seeks the community\u2019s help to ensure safety for its workers as a precaution against COVID-19. \u201cWe are asking you to please give our staff the space they need to conduct their work by keeping a distance of at least<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}