Officials with the city of Lamesa were hoping on Friday to announce the lifting of this past week’s restrictions on the use of water from the city distribution system.
But those restrictions, implemented last Sunday, remained in place as of late Friday evening.
While some water was flowing into the city through the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority (CRMWA) pipeline, that flow had not yet reached 100 percent, City Manager Sean Overeynder said Friday afternoon.
That pipeline from the Texas panhandle, which delivers the majority of the city’s water, was shut down early this past week to allow for repairs of a leak ...