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Trinidad details Jan. 3 Scenic Drive water‑main break, issues boil‑water notice and relies on trucked supply
Summary
City staff told the council the Jan. 3 main break on Scenic Drive drained storage tanks and triggered a precautionary boil‑water notice; trucking and mutual aid supplied roughly 171,000 gallons over three days at a preliminary cost of $18,720 while repair and lost‑production costs are still being tallied.
City Manager Gabriel Adams told the Trinidad City Council on Jan. 13 that an overnight break on Scenic Drive on Jan. 3 caused a rapid, multi‑hour loss of treated water and prompted the city to issue a precautionary boil‑water notice.
“We started receiving our first alarm calls from the treatment plant shortly after 3 a.m.,” Adams said, summarizing staff logs. He said the town’s two storage tanks were about 85–90% full at midnight but the system experienced a rapid drawdown, with staff estimating the system lost tens of thousands of gallons per hour during the event.
Staff isolated the leak and began implementing the city’s water‑shortage contingency plan. Adams described a multi‑channel emergency notification approach—website posts, SMS push alerts, email lists and door‑to‑door delivery—and credited city staff and mutual‑aid trucking vendors with restoring supply. A convoy of four tanker trucks delivered water starting about 11 a.m.; Adams said roughly…
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