{"id":21981,"date":"2020-03-19T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/officials-remind-locals-to-flush-only-toilet-paper\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T22:09:00","slug":"officials-remind-locals-to-flush-only-toilet-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/officials-remind-locals-to-flush-only-toilet-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials remind locals to flush only toilet paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Toiletpaper-shn-032020.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Toiletpaper-shn-032020.jpg 788w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Toiletpaper-shn-032020-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/03\/Toiletpaper-shn-032020-768x637.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 788px) 100vw, 788px\"><figcaption><strong>Non-toilet paper items can cause severe sewer blockages.<\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Grand County officials are reminding people to flush only toilet paper and personal waste down their toilets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">With panic buying related to the novel coronavirus outbreak reducing access to toilet paper, officials are asking that locals do not flush paper towels, wet wipes, napkins, tissues and other objects that may be used as a substitute. Only toilet paper is designed to be flushed and not cause a sewer mainline or service line blockages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sewer collection systems have a hard time handling inappropriately flushed items, and objects like paper towels and wet wipes can cause sewer back ups, often leading to thousands of dollars in damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If folks are \u201cforced to get creative in the bathroom tissue product department,\u201d officials ask that they use a trashcan for disposal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Local sewer districts are being proactive in anticipation of the possible increase of inappropriately flushed materials and will be spending more time and money in sewer main jet cleaning operations, manhole spot checks and CCTV inspections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/officials-remind-locals-to-flush-only-toilet-paper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-toilet paper items can cause severe sewer blockages.Courtesy Grand County Sheriff\u2019s Office Grand County officials are reminding people to flush only toilet paper and personal waste down their toilets. With panic buying related to the novel coronavirus outbreak reducing access to toilet paper, officials are asking that locals do not flush paper towels, wet wipes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 10:49:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}