Gallup warns of June 11 water shutoff on McKee block area

Water service on the 500 block through 633 McKee was set to be interrupted from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 11, with the City of Gallup warning that surrounding customers could also see low water pressure while crews worked. The Water Department said the shutoff was needed so workers could complete a meter can change-out safely.

For homes and businesses on McKee, the outage meant planning around a full weekday without reliable water for cooking, washing, childcare needs and business operations. The city’s notice pointed residents to utility dispatch with questions, signaling that officials expected at least some disruption across the block area.

The shutdown also fit into a larger picture of utility work in Gallup. The city says it manages electric, water, wastewater and solid waste service for roughly 11,000 accounts in the greater Gallup area, so even a limited outage touches a system that reaches deep into daily life across McKinley County. The McKee work was presented as planned maintenance, not an emergency break, which suggests crews were trying to handle the repair before it could create a bigger outage later.

Gallup’s alert page showed other water notices in the same stretch of late May and early June, including an emergency outage on June 4 and a separate outage tied to water system improvements that was scheduled for June 15 along Mark Avenue. Taken together, the notices pointed to an active maintenance period for the city’s water system, with several neighborhoods seeing either shutoffs or lower pressure within days of one another.