By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
A large swath of St. Joseph residents will experience low water pressure over the next few days while valve replacement is being completed by Missouri American Water.
Spokesperson Christie Barnhart says about 19-hundred Missouri American customers are experiencing low water pressure while work is being done.
"So we're just letting them know, we issued an alert through our emergency notification system, just to let the know that from about 7am to 5pm during the day they might experience low water pressure," Barnhart tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "But our goal is to, we're replacing a 30 inch valve and we're doing that today and the work should be done by early evening."
Barnhart says the work on the water line valve will likely take the full day to complete.
"We're anticipating that the low pressure will be between seven and five and then in the evening hours the pressure will be normal," Barnhart explains. "And that is based on us successfully getting this new valve installed today, which so far things are going well, but I do want to reiterate that there are no precautionary boil advisories associted with this at all."
Barnhart says the valve work should be completed at the end of the day, but the project is large enough that customers could experience low pressure for the next few days.
The area affected stretches from 32nd Street to 16th, from Frederick Avenue to Felix with a portion north of Frederick between 22nd and 16th.