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WYOMING / CARBON COUNTY

Sinclair

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Sinclair, Wyoming
Tedder, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Population (2020)
374
Water cut
March 3, 2022
Cause
infrastructure
Where
41.78°N, 107.12°W

What happened, and when

Every dated water event the register holds for Sinclair, newest first, each with the sources that document it.

  1. Cut offon the card

    Cut off: what happened

    Sinclair takes its treated water from the City of Rawlins system. When that system emptied on March 3, 2022 after a main break, a treatment-plant line failure and months of reduced spring supply, Sinclair lost pressure with it; the city's report says the town's tank had been auto-refilling from the depleted Rawlins tanks. Residents of both communities were under a boil advisory until March 8 and were supplied with bottled and well water at the county fairgrounds.

    • City of Rawlins: Water infrastructure and 2022 critical water event report (utility insert, April 2022) (March 30, 2022)
    • WyoFile: Rawlins's municipal water failure part of a growing climate concern (August 4, 2022)
    • SweetwaterNOW: Carbon County issues critical water alert in wake of multiple source issues (March 4, 2022)