UPDATE: Water service restored. Easy fix, thank goodness. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Water Service Failure
City of Alva Crews are responding to an unknown interruption in water service. This is impacting water customers on the east side of Alva, including, but possibly not limited to the Troubadour and the Burton Place neighborhood. At this time, we do not know the cause of this water service interruption.
If you do not have water, please call or text 580.748.2685 to report your address.
We apologize for this inconvenience. We will provide more updates as they are available.
Contractors are making repairs to the fire hydrant at Hunt and Center Streets this afternoon. This should take two to four hours, and service will be interrupted in about a four-block radius.
We apologize for the inconvenience. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
City of Alva Crews will be conducting a waterline repair in the alleyway behind Wharton Funeral Home.
Customers on Oklahoma Blvd, 13th Street, 14th Street and Maple near 13th and Oklahoma, may experience low to no water pressure during the repair work.
We apologize for the inconvenience. We will update when repairs are completed.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Local/Thru Truck Traffic – Designated Local Detours for ODOT Project US HWY 281 South
Starts Monday, April 27, 2026 Continues until all roll-offs are full
Please Read the Flyer!
The City of Alva has reports of a door-to-door peddler soliciting residents for paperless billing.
THIS IS NOT A CITY OF ALVA SOLICITATION - DO NOT SHARE ANY PERSONAL OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION.
All door-to-door peddlers are required to have a permit from the City and we encourage you to contact City Hall at 580.327.1340 to verify if such individuals are lawfully permitted to solicit City of Alva residents. You may also request to see their permit and if they do not have one, we do request that you obtain their information and share that with law enforcement.
Please protect yourselves and check on your vulnerable neighbors. Let us know if we can be of assistance.
04/14/2026 WATER LINE REPAIRS
City of Alva Crews will be conducting waterline/fire hydrant repairs at the corner of 4th and Center this morning. Customers from 2nd to 4th Streets on Center Street, and the surrounding neighborhoods may experience low water pressure during the repairs work.
The repair work should be complete in two to four hours after work begins.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
The City of Alva Utility Billing staff have received numerous return billing statements this month. Staff are attempting to contact customers with the information on file, but if you have not received your bill this month, please contact City Hall at 580.327.1340. Bills are owed whether the postal service delivers them or not.
Thank you for being valued customers of the City of Alva!
Limbs and grass may still be deposited in the designated areas.
We apologize for this inconvenience. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
UPDATE:
Plan B: Crews will need to replace the fire hydrant tomorrow morning, including some additional repairs that will take approximately 4 hours. Please view the original message below for impacted areas and service interruptions.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
City of Alva crew members will be replacing the fire hydrant at 11th and Flynn either this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
Water service may be interrupted briefly this morning while they exercise the valves in the area in preparation for the replacement. If preparations go as anticipated, the hydrant will be replaced this afternoon (plan B will be to replace the hydrant tomorrow morning, if necessary). Water service interruption during the replacement should be about two hours.
The area impacted should be neighborhoods from Flynn to Santa Fe between 11th and 14th Streets. Adjacent neighborhoods may be impacted as well.
This is not anticipated to affect the high school.
Thank you for your patience and understanding during this important work.
City of Alva crew members will be replacing the fire hydrant at 11th and Flynn either this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
Water service may be interrupted briefly this morning while they exercise the valves in the area in preparation for the replacement. If preparations go as anticipated, the hydrant will be replaced this afternoon (plan B will be to replace the hydrant tomorrow morning, if necessary). Water service interruption during the replacement should be about two hours.
The area impacted should be neighborhoods from Flynn to Santa Fe between 11th and 14th Streets. Adjacent neighborhoods may be impacted as well.
This is not anticipated to affect the high school.
Thank you for your patience and understanding during this important work.
City of Alva crews are responding to a water line break in the Myers Addition. The extent of the repairs is yet to be determined, but this neighborhood and adjacent neighborhoods and businesses on the east side of HWY 281 may experience low to no water pressure during the repairs.
Follow this link for the 3/23/2026 special meeting of the Alva City Council: https://towncloud.io/go/alva-ok/agendas/1681
Follow this link for the 3/23/2026 special meeting of the Alva Utility Authority: https://towncloud.io/go/alva-ok/agendas/1683
Follow this link for the 3/23/2026 special meeting of the Alva Economic Development Authority: https://towncloud.io/go/alva-ok/agendas/1682
Customers in this area and the adjacent neighborhoods may experience low to no water pressure until repairs are complete.
We will provide updates as they are available.
Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, the City of Alva and their contract crews will be shutting the well field down for the majority of the day to tie in new lines in the well field.
Customers adjacent to the wellfield and the new ground storage tank will experience low to no water pressure during this service interruption. Please take this time to make proper arrangements.
Should customers served in other areas of our system experience a service interruption, please contact 580.748.2685 as this would indicate a separate unanticipated issue.
We apologize for this inconvenience as we upgrade our system. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
C3 Construction and ODOT have provided the following tentative construction schedule for the US 281 South highway project. This is all contingent on weather conditions and the absence of unforeseen construction conditions, breakdowns, etc.
"Below you’ll see our current schedule for activities on the North end of the project near the NWOSU Campus. We plan to do the majority or work in this area during the week of spring break.
TH/FR (3/12 – 3/13): Demo crossing at Olive St.
MO (3/16): Stabilize from Monroe St. to High St.
TU (3/17): Lay concrete to High St.
WE (3/18): Stabilize from High St. to the Baptist College Ministries
TH (3/19): Lay concrete from High St. to BCM
FR (3/20): Stabilize the remaining 300 ft.
MO (3/23): Lay concrete the remaining 300 ft. to Oklahoma Blvd
The crosswalk at Olive St. will get demoed and replaced with a temporary crosswalk starting Thursday 3/12 through the weekend 3/21-3/22."
Tuesday through Saturday 10 am to 7 pm
Water service update: Crews have finished the work and are starting to turn the water back on now.
Some residents may notice low water pressure because the booster pumps are still off. They should be back on within the hour and pressure should return to normal soon after.
Thank you for your patience.