STUART —
Customers of Hughes County Water District 2 in Stuart have been without water for six days and have been asked to cut off water to livestock.
Monday at 7 p.m., the Hughes County Water District 2 board’s monthly meeting was held at the Stuart Senior Center; there were 50-plus customers in attendance.
In addition to Hughes County Water District 2 Water Board Chairman Jim Wilson and four other water board members, water district Field Engineer Robert Sloane and Vivian Moody, the owner of The Management Company that manages some rural water districts in Pittsburg County and District 2 in Hughes County, were in attendance.
Sloane started off by saying that the plant is incapable of producing enough water to supply demand at this time; that the company is not sure what the problem is and that if it is leaks, they are not sure where they are.
Sloane said that many should be without water, because he had to shut their valves off in an attempt to refill the water tower.
“Robert (Sloane) told me if I have livestock, to shut down water to them,” Hughes County Water District 2 customer Bill Myskey said.
“Yes, I did,” Sloane said.
Water customer Adam Tweedle said, “It would be a cold day in hell before you will tell me to cut off water to my livestock.” He went on to say that he cannot believe that the water situation is so bad that they are having to make a decision between humans and animals.
“My family and I have been without water this time for six days,” Myskey said outside the Senior Center before the meeting started.
“I am having to drive 20 miles to take a shower to show up clean to a place that is only 10 miles away.”
Contact MJ Brickey by email at mjbrickey@journalist.com.
For more on this story, see Tuesday’s print edition of the McAlester News-Capital.
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On Monday, this water collected July 10 by Hughes County Water District 2 customer Don Landry, is pictured. Landry said that when he does have water it is a small stream no bigger than a straw. MJ Brickey
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