{"id":30233,"date":"2018-06-12T16:47:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=30233"},"modified":"2018-06-12T16:47:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T21:47:15","slug":"prisons-water-restored-after-tower-is-drained-by-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2018\/06\/12\/prisons-water-restored-after-tower-is-drained-by-leak\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison\u2019s water restored after tower is drained by leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repair crews on Tuesday restored water service to Oklahoma State Reformatory in southwestern Oklahoma.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>Oklahoma Department of Corrections officials said a leak in a local water line drained the prison\u2019s water tower Sunday night.<\/p><p>The leak drained multiple water towers near the town of Granite, including the prison\u2019s. But, state prison officials say malfunctioning pumps at a nearby water treatment plant added to the problem. Without the pumps it was difficult to refill the empty water towers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>People housed at the prison were given gallon-sized jugs of drinking water in their cells and used trash cans of water to flush their toilets. Kitchen workers avoided washing dishes by using paper plates, officials said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>Some inmates working manual labor at the prison were able to use a few showers that were still working. Prison officials say the water is back on and operations are back to normal.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inmates kept gallon-sized jugs of drinking water in their cells while crews worked to restore the water.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":30236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[890,889,891],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30242,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30233\/revisions\/30242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}