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CALIFORNIA / KINGS COUNTY

Stratford

Ran dry
Stratford, California
LeoBC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Population (2020)
1,121
Water cut
August 12, 2018
Cause
infrastructure
Where
36.19°N, 119.82°W

What happened, and when

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

  1. Ran dryon the card

    Ran dry: what happened

    Stratford Public Utility District's main well failed on August 10, 2018 when it began producing sand and its seal broke, and the backup well failed on August 12, leaving the district's roughly 330 customers without water; the district declared a water supply emergency that day. Non-potable water was trucked in by a dairy and a fire truck for bathing and flushing while residents lived on donated bottled water; an idle older well was restored on August 14 and the do-not-drink order lifted on August 22. The district later blamed casing damage from land subsidence, and said in 2022 that it remained under the 2018 emergency with the new well built in 2021 as its only reliable source.

    • Stratford Public Utility District (via CEQAnet): Emergency water supply project (CEQA notice of exemption) (October 11, 2018)
    • KMPH Fox 26: Wells fail, people in Stratford without water (August 12, 2018)
    • ABC30 Fresno: Stratford residents likely to be out of water for rest of week (August 13, 2018)
    • KVPR: Stratford residents still without tap water that's safe to drink (August 21, 2018)