UPDATE: The mandatory water restriction that was placed in Union County due to a fuel spill has been lifted. Officials say the fuel spill is no longer detectable in the river and operations at the Catawba Water Treatment Plant have returned to normal.
INDIAN TRAIL, NC – An extreme water shortage has some residents in Union County being asked to conserve water.
People are being asked not to use spray irrigation, to wash cars, or fill swimming pools.
The restrictions are because of a deadly Friday morning accident on the York – Lancaster county line.
A car collided with a logging truck sending fuel into the Catawba River, the source for most Union County’s drinking water.
A water treatment plant in Lancaster was shut down before the contaminated water reached it, but can’t reopen until the spill is cleaned up.
