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Water restrictions due to runoff from Cayce fire

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CAYCE, SC (WIS) -

The City of Cayce is asking residents not to use water outside, such as watering their yards or washing their vehicles.

City officials say as a result of efforts to extinguish the World Wide Recycling facility fire, runoff from the fire water and foam have reached the Congaree River.

In order to avoid drawing possible contaminated water into Cayce's water system, the city has discontinued drawing water until officials are sure there are no contaminants.

To continue to provide drinkable water to all City of Cayce water customers, Cayce has opened interconnection between the City and the City of West Columbia water systems which will supply West Columbia water to Cayce water customers.

In order to insure that there is sufficient water available to all water customers, the City of Cayce is issuing mandatory water use restrictions on all city water customers.

Until further notice is given, the city is asking all water customers to refrain from using city water for any outside use, to include yard irrigation and vehicle washing.

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