Expect farm water deliveries for those areas by late March. Also, priming the district's Block 49 area will start next week, and water should be available later that week. Water users are encouraged to call their water masters for current schedules. Deliveries are expected through the system by April 10. Water users are encouraged to call their water masters for current schedules.
Officials ask customers to make sure valves are off and pumps have been hooked up.
Managers may be able to provide water in some cases before April 1. Crews are working to provide water first where it has already been requested. The Yakima Basin snowpack remains healthy and is expected to provide normal amounts of water. But state officials say the spill isn't cause for alarm, and they don't expect to fine the city. Sherwood said similar sewage leaks have happened in Yakima and Ellensburg.