The city of Jackson issued the following statement.
Early this morning an electrical fire occurred at OB Curtis WTP. The fire was managed by the assistance of Ridgeland Fire Department and Jackson Fire Department. The fire shutdown two high service pumps and shut down the entire plant. We have an electrical contractor onsite to help assist with rewiring the high service pumps to get them back online. Once the high service pumps are back online, full power should be restored to the plant. We anticipate the plant being back online by noon today, but it could take longer if other issues are found during the recovery.
The loss of pressure in the system requires the City to issue a boil water notice for all surface water connections.
43 comments:
Of course, there was no water pressure with which to fight the fire.
With "assistance" from Ridgeland Fire Department? Either JFD is way understaffed or the fire was much larger than what is being reported.
Everyone involved in the debacle that is the City of Jackson water system should be in jail, starting with little Chokwe.
So if a fire breaks out somewhere in the city there’s no water?
They probably turned on a water filter machine for the first time in a couple of years.
I am certain that the fire was the result of an "administrative process" and simply a "process" issue and that it bears no relationship to the "process" of maintenance or other "processes" and the "water process" is administrative in nature and not something to be concerned with.
Adding to that, some dingaling hit a power pole around Elton Rd. this morning and knocked out power to 900 households.
No clean water, no power...it's February again in the most radical city on the planet!
The plant is in Ridgeland. RFD has a station just a couple of blocks away. Nearest JFD is either Canton Mart or on Ridgewood.
I wonder if typhoid and turbids have fire suppression qualities?
9:34
Power out on Elton Rd. Who cares?
Meanwhile, there is little to no water in the city, and places like the kidney care/dialysis center downtown on N. State Street must close today until water is restored. Patients with serious kidney disease are sent home and unable to receive their scheduled dialysis treatments, or hopefully redirected to another facility if they can get in. This water problem is serious folks -- no laughing matter -- it literally puts lives at stake.
The irony of reality. A fire at a water plant.
@9:30, enough with the reductive arguments, right?
Call me cynical, but I find it interesting that this happened right as the fed as about to release a bunch of money for water infrastructure projects.
Jackson can't catch a break!
Or a more cynical statement would be "you make your own luck."
Boil Water Notice v9,999.0
That's a lot of trouble just to burn the file with all of the EPA "recommendations."
I mean, within 12 hours of you & Kim Wade doing a whole show about this the damn thing catched on fire. This city needs big cup of "get right"
The District announced Cultivation is closed. Fondren restaurants too. No water.
It is just unreal.
Can’t help but feel a smug sense of satisfaction from watching the predictable collapse of Jackson due to the comically inept leadership. You all are getting exactly what you deserve!
But I guess you can all wash your progressive leftist “moral” superiority down with some of that boo boo water!
Tater dumps on Antar & previous city leaders - again. He says delayed maintenance catches we with the Radical City eventually - a failure of City leadership. Go Governor!
https://www.wapt.com/article/jackson-water-maintenance-ignored-for-years-and-that-catches-up-with-you-governor-says/36300512
I hope the electrical contractor has the appropriate amount of minority employees, if not may have to wait a couple of more days.
We dont have these problems in Flowood.
Remember the owner of the facility spent $5M on it to locate less than a mile from center at St. Dominic. Poor planning, waste of money, and greed. Remember they do not care about you just your Medicare payment.
Meanwhile, there is little to no water in the city, and places like the kidney care/dialysis center downtown on N. State Street must close today until water is restored. Patients with serious kidney disease are sent home and unable to receive their scheduled dialysis treatments, or hopefully redirected to another facility if they can get in. This water problem is serious folks -- no laughing matter -- it literally puts lives at stake.
Good reason to pick baptist hospital. They drilled their own well a few years back after dealing with outages.
The "You folks deserve what you get" comments are getting old. I do not think many of the folks that voted for Chokwe expected this level of incompetency. There are a great number of us that didn't vote for him either that have had to deal with him. We need someone that is willing to at least try and do something positive for the city.
He needs to be recalled. Is there some recently graduated Prep/JA/St. Andrew's student that can do better than what Jackson has offered for mayor over the last two decades?
MSDH Central Offices, you know, the people that have some limited oversight of water issues, and the Public Health lab, etc...has no running water either. They are using a portable toilet trailer.
Welcome to the capital city.
1:08
A white mayor over a 80% black city aint about to garner any favor from the state, my man.
Suck it up cupcakes. You elected the fool of a mayor Chowke.
@ Better than ever -- so did St. D, and so did UMC. So what's your point?
1:24, Are you assuming that those private school are all-white? (The current mayor went to St. Andrew).
@11:30 = Victim Shamer! Thank goodness nobody got raped this morning, as you'd be ranting about the victim being a tease and a slut.
Anyone who actually cares about Jackson (admittedly not many on this website) should be thankful that a major healthcare provider invested heavily for a dialysis clinic downtown serving the sick and providing jobs, and yes with the goal of making a profit! Profit is good, and healthcare is one thing that thrives in our city, so bring it. And BTW there is a tremendous need in our community, particularly at that location, which is filled to capacity with patients. The people who work at that clinic (yes, they have "jobs" in Jackson, and again that's a good thing) are wonderful kind caregivers providing excellent care to some of the sickest folks in our community facing end stage renal disease. Unfortunately, the lack of city leadership to supply water is putting those patients at serious risk today.
Y'all residents of Jackson should call your elected mayor and express your disatisfaction with the water situation.
Please call, call often.
@1:08
You people have been voting for this crap for over 20 years. Chuck is just the latest reflection of the madness.
Jackson just decided to pre-boil water in anticipation of the next notice. The boil process got out of control and, as a result, the fire.
@2:37 what good is that going to do? The truth is that Mayor Lumumba is also very dissatisfied with the water situation. He is very upset with it.
The problem is that Lumumba ISN'T unhappy with their money management, maintenance, work ethic, hiring practices, operations, etc. Instead he is unhappy that nobody has handed him a blank check to fix it.
Instead of having the attitude of "We've got a problem and we need buckle down and solve it", Lumumba's stance is "We've got a problem and it's not our fault, and you racist white people should come fix it for me."
No pursuit = social justice
Neutering the cops = social justice
Chasing the last few white faces out of Jackson = social justice
Blaming whitey = social justice
Boil water alerts are a small price for establishing the most radical city on the planet!
I can't wait to the see usual local media interviews with Jeff Good.
After all, he's devoted to making Jackson better !
Also, I predict Maggie Wade will host another "exclusive" interview with the baby mayor by next Friday. (He will use big words that his constituents don't understand,
and Ms. Wade will stare at chockey with the eyes of a 14 year old girl meeting her
teenage idol).
Right ?
@1:24, I don’t believe the current mayor ever went to St. Andrew’s school. According to one of his bios, he attended St. Joe middle school, then Murrah, & graduated from Callaway. And I didn’t detect any mention of race by the commenter who asked if perhaps a recent graduate of Prep/ JA/ St.A might be able to do a better job.
Jackson will soon be Caracas, Venezuela v2.0 .
Who has been advising the City on the treatment plant? Is it Andrew Jenkins or the Water Resources engineers at Neel Schaffer? Maybe a friend of Bob Millers in New Orleans who gave him some free advice. "Continue to use the same contractors and get free, unofficial advice from friends."
Complete incompetence gets re-elected with 75% of the vote. Jacksonians must not care about water or they wouldn't re-elect by landslide the clown over the water.
So yes, "Jackson gets what they deserve."
Kenneth Stokes said it well, "If Jackson had a white mayor, thousands would be protesting in the streets."
Jackson has descended to the point that Kenneth Stokes is the voice of reason.
@2:11 Good to know. Worth mentioning, if they aren't using it as their primary source of water there will be problems switching to it during an outage. You can't flip back & forth at will due to composition differences. Baptist runs 100% on well water, not city water.
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