{"id":2185,"date":"2017-03-22T19:56:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bentonil.com\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2017-03-22T19:56:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T19:56:44","slug":"32417-smoking-sewer-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"3\/24\/17 &#8220;Smoking&#8221; Sewer Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bentonil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/smoking-sewer-lines.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2186\" src=\"http:\/\/bentonil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/smoking-sewer-lines.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, March 24, workers with the Benton Water and Sewer Department will be &#8220;smoking&#8221; several sewer lines. As a part of this testing workers will inject a simulated smoke into the sewer system to find leaks and faulty connections, which may need repair.\u00a0 Finding the location and repairing these leaks is essential to the economical and safe functioning of our City\u2019s sewer system.\u00a0 The test lasts approximately 30 minutes in each location.<\/p>\n<p>Workers will be testing in the following locations on Friday morning starting at 9am: <br \/>\n *Along First Street from Hudelson to Capital<br \/>\n *Along South Main from Hudelson to Capital<br \/>\n *Part of Pope from Hudelson to Adams<\/p>\n<p>The sewer safety test produces a simulated smoke, which may be seen coming from manhole covers, storm drains, roof vents, and building foundations. The simulated smoke will not enter your home if it is properly plumbed and fixture traps contain water.<\/p>\n<p>The simulated smoke is not expected to enter residents\u2019 home in the impacted area, but if it does, residents are advised to not be alarmed.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, March 24, workers with the Benton Water and Sewer Department will be &#8220;smoking&#8221; several sewer lines. As a part of this testing workers will inject a simulated smoke into the sewer system to find leaks and faulty connections, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/?p=2185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]"},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bentonil.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}