Saturday, February 20, 2021

Jackson Provides Recovery Update

 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

The City of Jackson is issuing the following updates for the evening of Saturday, February 20, 2021, related to the impacts of winter weather on the City and efforts being made:

WATER

  • Low and no water pressure is still impacting residents across Jackson but we are continuing to see signs of progress. There is still no definitive timeline for when it will be restored, but crews are continuing to work to get water pressure increased across the system. We are also hopeful that weather improvements will help.
  • We are gauging progress by measuring the psi (pounds per square inch) in the water distribution system. The goal is to reach around 90 psi at OB Curtis WTP and around 80 psi at JH Fewell WTP. Today, we are up to 55 psi. That is up from 51 psi yesterday and 37 psi when the cold front came through resulting in water outages throughout the City of Jackson and City of Byram. This is good, but we have further to go.
  • No new water main breaks were reported/confirmed today. There are 13 confirmed water main breaks within the City of Jackson. We are working to assess and coordinate repairs.
  • If you do have water, please continue to conserve it. Residents closer to the plants will see water pressure restored soonest. It will take longer for those farther away. Conserving water will allow fellow Jacksonians to get back online faster.
  • The system-wide precautionary boil water notice is still in effect for all surface water and well water connections.

WATER DISTRIBUTION

  • Today, City water distribution efforts focused on deliveries to the elderly and homebound.

JTRAN

  • JTRAN will resume regular service on Monday, February 22, 2001

GARBAGE COLLECTION

  • Waste Management anticipates resuming residential garbage collections on Monday, February 22. There will be no make-up days. Collections will go forward as scheduled.
  • We ask that residents only place household garbage out for both collection days next week. The loads will be extremely heavy and the focus will need to be household waste removal.
  • Please hold bulk items and yard debris for the following week. If residents have limbs down from the storm, they can call 601- 960-1193 for assessment and collection. 

PHONE LINES

  • The volume of calls to 311 continues to overwhelm the system. We ask that residents please reserve calls for visible water leaks and urgent needs for assistance. In addition to 311, residents can also call one of the following numbers:

    • 601.960.1111
    • 601-960-1777
    • 601-960-1781
    • 601-960-1778
    • 601-960-0379
    • 601-960-1779


30 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why do they not list these telephone numbers in numerical order? Maybe they did not learn this in the third grade.

Anonymous said...

Assess and coordinate repairs??? Just fix the damn leaks!

Anonymous said...

Governor needs to declare state of emergency and start delivering water door to door now.

Feds need to send in Corp of engineers and dismantle the Jackson water system and start new.

Start the pumps!

Anonymous said...

8:36 Sorry for my N/E Jxn friends but... the state needs to just "zap" Jackson, per se' from existence, and start over with a new state map. Honestly better for all in the long run.

Anonymous said...

" There is still no definitive timeline ".

How many times per day does this Mayor say that phrase ?




Anonymous said...

How do I go about conserving my water? The only water I have is in the hot water heater. The rest is in the system pipes and lines before my meter. The best way to purge the system and get back to 'normal' is to USE the system, which means running the water. I just cannot for the life of me trust anything that comes out of city hall.

America's Progressive City said...

Mayor Flapjaw has noticed an "uptick" in water pressure, which is obviously a perception of a sound utilities infrastructure. He did comment that Jacktown's water problems are caused by gun shows and "illegal guns."

Anonymous said...

Folks in South Jackson are going on 5 days with no water. How in a civilized society can a city let this happen. I know all the excuses they use surface water and blah blah. They always give you the reason it's broke how about give a solution to fix it so it won't happen again. It's a given every 3 years or so we are going to have really cold temps. If i lived in Jackson as soon as the weather person tells me about the temps i fill my bathtub up so i can use the toilet. If everyone would stop paying their taxes maybe they would get the message.

Anonymous said...

8:36 is on the right track, however, a complete takeover of the city by the State is required to eliminate all the problems Jackson has.

Anonymous said...

8:36

Would love the Feds to fix the water system since the leadership of Jackson has done nothing with it for the past 50 years. State is at fault here, as well.

Anonymous said...

I feel for the people of Jackson; they have been subjected to these conditions on and off for decades. What's the MOST interesting (and not in a positive sense), to me is that there seems to be enough federal dollars to feed, cloth, house, and educate an endless number of illegal aliens, yet no federal grant money to help the citizens of Jackson update a dilapidated infrastructure ; and yet the good citizens of Jackson continue to vote for democrats!! Hmmm.....I retract my sympathy. They get what they voted for!!

Anonymous said...

I agree it needs fixing. I agree that the only way it happens is some sort of federal grant or state takeover. However, why should taxpayer money pay for that? Why should a normal person that lives in another county have to fully fund their own water system, plus Jackson's system as well? That is like telling me I have to pay my own housepayment, and also pay my neighbor's housepayment. I don't like it. The Jackson ratepayers should pay for it. That is how water/sewer systems are supposed to operate.

Anonymous said...

Here’s the status of Jackson’s recovery: It’ll never happen.

Anonymous said...

Mayor Moron: "There is still no definitive timeline."

GRAMMAR FAILURE! "Definitive" is a noun, not an adjective. "There is still not DEFINITE timeline."

Anonymous said...

Here is another way of re-stating the mayor's messages:

"We have one product to sell to the public and make money: Water. We don't know how to bill for it. We don't know how to provide it. We are not competent."

Next.

Anonymous said...

Several years ago Jackson had a person from New Orleans that came here and did a good job, with what he had to work with. The only problem was....he was white. There is a racial problem in Jackson and it’s not White against black. It’s black against white. During the employment of the person I was speaking of he convinced the city to sub contract out work to repair the breaks. It was done quickly and efficiently. I’m just wondering why the city is not doing that now? Did the subs not get paid?

Anonymous said...

I have a solution! I suggest that all of us undesirable and welfare cheats should abandon Jackson as you did. Then we can all move into your neighborhood. What do you think?.... jeff

Anonymous said...

Would love to see how good a job you guys would do running the city. Despite your suggestion, it’s not as easy as “being Republican.”

Anonymous said...

I mean this is the capital of the state. If we could just let the state fix Jackson then turn it back over to little Chok it would be better for everyone. Not being racist just real . These problems have been going on too long. I already pay 9% (extra 2% for Jackson) for a hamburger at Wendy's and still little to no improvement.

Anonymous said...

Speaking of morons, @9:15 said:
GRAMMAR FAILURE! "Definitive" is a noun, not an adjective. "There is still not DEFINITE timeline."

The Oxford English dictionary disagrees with you.
de·fin·i·tive
adjective
adjective: definitive

As does Merriam-Webster.
definitive adjective

Anonymous said...

One of these days, with so much gunfire in Jackson, Ole Jedi-Tavarius Clampett is either going to strike water or Texas Tea.

And you KNOW what he gonna do then: Pack up the family and move away from there.

Anonymous said...

If you were to calculate the cost of restoring Jackson’s water, sewer and streets to a normal status, and place that amount on the city’s balance sheet as a liability you would see how broke they really are but also that they will never generate the income to pay that debt and continue to function. They will have to be taken over by the state, but this will never happen with the current administration in place. They want the rest of the state to bail them out but have no say so in how it’s spent.

Anonymous said...

Mayor flapjaw doesn't want Jackson's problems fixed because he wants his sheeple to be dependent on him and his progressive pals. It's called keeping them on the plantation. It's the same with the progressives in WDC. Bribe them with their own money and never let a crisis go to waste.

Anonymous said...

Just think how great things will be once the folks in belhaven are paying for their CID!

Anonymous said...

@10:41 has a point. It took decades to get in this mess, and it will take decades to get out of it. Mayor Lumumba and Public Works Director Charles Williams are both incompetent. However, this mess was in the making long before they took over. However, you have to start digging out of the hole at some point, and those 2 are just digging the hole deeper. It would take at least 50 years of great management to get it fixed. And Jackson isn't worried about good management. They are only worried about skin color.

Anonymous said...

10:41, wouldn't be that much of a problem. Only a matter of focusing on what has to be done rather than what would be 'nice' to do. Spend money on the essentials; granted that would piss off a large part of the electorate - those that want to have their little festival, or neighborhood fling-ding funded. Put money into the police and fire departments to adequately staff them; put money into streets, water, sewer and drainage. After that, the rest probably won't get much or any. And cut out all the preference contracts - the Asian engineer's 2% on every contract isn't bringing much value to the city, but we gotta have it in order to keep our EBO ratios for the AA community.

Is it a way to get re-eelected? Probably not, but it is a way to address the problems. But the Mayor's first choice is to get re-elected and get his national attention. Not willing to take on the hard chores but pretend to worry about them and aim for their solution. At least better than Harvey, who always needed to have a study done - as a planner after all that was the only thing he was good at. (Oh, forgot, he was good at fleecing the city on his way out with the idiotic terms put into the Seimens contract. Gotta take care of the buds since he wasn't going to be around any more.) And Tony - who's focus was on the poles, the ones with the strippers hanging on them.

Yeah, give someone that's willing to do the work a chance, and you will find it can be done. Harder than being "a Republican", granted. But having the common sense to address the right issue and the balls to do it is not out of the realm. Jackson voters have turned down a couple in recent years that were willing to take it on, and I'm sure they will for a few more election cycles before they realize that failing, and continuing to do the same thing is not a way out of failing.

Anonymous said...

All the money in the world can not fix Jackson. If for example 10 billion dollars would be granted to Jackson it would be gone in 2 years and nothing would be really fixed. Now that is true.

Anonymous said...

" Jackson voters have turned down a couple in recent years that were willing to take it on, and I'm sure they will for a few more election cycles before they realize that failing, "

That's the entire point.

The Jackson "voters" will never realize the City is already lost, and has been for many years.

They only bitch when there's no water.
And that in itself is not a big issue until their toilets stop working.









Anonymous said...

Whenever Chokeway uses that phrase (he needs to get a copyright), I think of the Cam Newton meme - "it's an ongoing investigation"


A Perception of Water Pressure said...

There may have been a slight "uptick" in the "psi" today. It could happen.


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