Horseshoe Bend issued an emergency message on Thursday evening asking residents to conserve water, and today we learned that this should continue until Saturday.
Public Works Director Jobie Catherman was monitoring the Payette River, where Horseshoe Bend gets its drinking water.
Catherman noticed the water turning brown, and a couple of hours later, it was black. Catherman sent a member of his staff up to the confluences of the rivers, and they found that the North Fork, the South Fork, and the Middle Fork all had mudslides making the water dirty…