Bates County News

Monday, December 8, 2025

Important Water Announcement For The City Of Rich Hill

 This is an Important Announcement from the City of Rich Hill

With their current Water Project going on they will be doing some maintenance that will not allow them to make water for a short period of time. They will be in Stage One of their Water Conservation Plan for Monday, Dec 8th, 2025.

Stage One requests voluntary conservation and compliance with the following restrictions:

a.  Water shall not be used for dust control.

b.  Flushing of mains by Water Department personnel shall not be done, except to alleviate individual water quality problems.

c.  Commercial and industrial Users shall conserve water as much as possible. (limit use of washing machines, washing a lot of dishes etc.)


Les “Buster” Chambers, age 90 of Amsterdam

Les “Buster” Chambers, age 90 of Amsterdam passed away Saturday, July 18 in St. Joseph. Graveside service and inurnment will be 10 a.m. Satu...