Residents say weekslong water outage left trailer-park tenants facing 30-day eviction

Residents of a Cody mobile home court told the City Council on a night of public comment that a roughly six-week loss of drinking water has left several households unable to clean, cook or maintain basic hygiene and that this week they were served 30-day notices to remove their trailers from the property.

At the podium, Nicole Eck said she and nine other trailers on the lot have faced service interruptions “for almost six weeks” and that “today we were all issued with 30 days to move our trailers.” Eck said she and other tenants are renters who cannot readily move their units and that the notice leaves them uncertain where they will go.

The comment followed corroboration from long-term residents and from the property owner. Carol Cole Wellong, who said she has lived at the park 11 years, said she has been hauling water and washing clothes early in the day to cope with the outage. “I have a full day before I even get to work,” she told the…