{"id":46,"date":"2021-05-26T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/\/?p=46"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:49:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:49:21","slug":"city-of-bloomington-illinois-concerned-with-the-use-of-water-powered-sump-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/city-of-bloomington-illinois-concerned-with-the-use-of-water-powered-sump-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Bloomington, Illinois, concerned with the use of water-powered sump pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a letter sent to all residents every year, the city of Bloomington, Illinois, voices its concerns with the use of water powered sump pumps stating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Water powered sump pumps can use large quantities of water in a very short time<\/li><li>Water powered sump pumps can have a profound impact on the City Services bill for the property<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bloomington Water Department goes on to say, \u201cthere are alternatives that do not have the risk of high water consumption.\u201d&nbsp; Adding, \u201ca battery backup for the sump sump pump can usually provide hours of safe pump protection without the cost of water use.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many other municipalities would be served well by following this well thought out example. Click&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.btpwd.org\/information.html\">here<\/a>&nbsp;to see the message on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a letter sent to all residents every year, the city of Bloomington, Illinois, voices its concerns with the use of water powered sump pumps stating: Water powered sump pumps can use large quantities of water in a very short time Water powered sump pumps can have a profound impact on the City Services bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/city-of-bloomington-illinois-concerned-with-the-use-of-water-powered-sump-pumps\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saveourwatertoday.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}