The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District issued the following press releases.
(#1) The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District is currently repairing a major break in a water main that has created issues that is expected to impact about 3,500 homes in all subdivisions around Pelahatchie Bay, both on the north and south shores.
A subcontractor for a utility company hit a 10-inch line just below one of the District’s water towers near Pelahatchie Shore Park, which caused a leak that drained three tower tanks that serve the Bay area.
Boil water notices can be expected in most areas as the damage is located, assessed and work is completed to fix the pipes.
(#2) Effective immediately, the PEARL RIVER VALLEY WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT has issued a Boil Water Notice for ALL subdivisions on the Pelahatchie Bay water system PWS#
610036. This notice was issued due to loss of water or water pressure. The loss of water or water pressure was due to a Boring Company boring into a 10” water main
FOLLOWING SUBDIVISIONS AFFECTED: Woodlake, Brendalwood, Woodlake Acadia, Townhomes of Woodlake, Commercial, Harbor View, Turtle Creek, Ashland Estate, Commonwealth, Brenhaven, Bay Creek, Private, Windward Bluff, Forest Point, Arrowhead, Beaver Run, Pelahatchie Woods, Hanover, Cliffview, Cliffview by the Bay,Audubon Point, Audubon Point I, Audubon Point II, Glen Cove, Paradise Point, Sunrise Point, Waterwood, Timber Crest, King’s Ridge, Riverchase, Barnett Bend, Hunters Oak, Riverchase North, Bridgetowne, Marblehead, Palisades/Sanctuary, Bridgepointe, Lighthouse Bend @ Bridgepointe, Arbor Landing, Northshore Village, Windward Oaks, Fox Bay, Fox Bay Part IV, Northshore Elementary School, Bay Pointe and Pineridge @ Bay Pointe
There are 3500 water connections affected in the area. The Mississippi State Department of Health was notified by this email.
We will take the first of the sample from the affected area starting on Thursday February 10, 2022. This boil water notice will be in effect for at least 24 hours or until we receive clear sampling.
27 comments:
So confused any time BWN happens outside Emperor Ladumbo's killing grounds.
These utility subcontractors are flaky, especially for the internet providers. Can you say //cough, cough// undocumented workers //cough, cough// ?
Hopefully Pearl River will go after this subcontractor civilly and make them pay up for the millions of gallons of treated water wasted.
BWN's are all the rage now. Chowke started the fad and now others are signing up.
Happens with PRVWSD occasionally. Usually under circumstances like this-contractors laying fiber hit the water main pipes. Occurred last month on the Madison side of the reservoir.
Rankin County is doomed.
Rankin County is dry again. Not having the guts to drive into Jacktown, looks like they'll have to put on collared shirts and pay Madison prices.
Um...does Socrates own a Boring Company...?
PRV got hit by a contractor. It happens. PRV is handling it in a proper manner. PRV is actually showing people the way things are supposed to be done. Sometimes stuff happens. When it does you handle it quickly and properly.
Not sure a water line was ever hit, but two years ago when C-sprire was laying cable (Bill Clinton did a lot of that) in Madison out Hoy Road, there were at least four road closures, over time, caused by contractors hitting gas lines. No BWNs recalled but repetitive, nonsensical, annoying closures and detours. These contractors either are never made to pay up or have deep pockets.
Remembering now one of these closures was an emergency where the ditch caved in on a man who had to be airlifted. Again...a contract company - In this case OSHA violation of not using appropriate safety devices while digging with men in or subject to being in the hole.
I work for a utility. We had a few problems with CSpire’s contractors. But it wasn’t too bad. CSpire manages them pretty well. But AT&T is like a bull in a china shop. They use Deviney and they roll through wrecking sh*t then walking off and leaving it. It’s a train wreck.
@6:57 is correct on a lot of his post, but I think the guy that got airlifted was working on moving utilities for the Hoy Road widening. It didn’t have anything to do with repair from a boring contractor hitting something.
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These utility subcontractors are flaky, especially for the internet providers. Can you say //cough, cough// undocumented workers //cough, cough// ?
Hopefully Pearl River will go after this subcontractor civilly and make them pay up for the millions of gallons of treated water wasted.
February 9, 2022 at 4:08 PM
No one is going to go after anyone. It was water, it's a minor inconvenience, it happens.
And there will be a lot of those big ugly cans that just stay on the curbside as (older) homeowners take a bag out to it on pick up day(s)
CSpire'subs are awful. They havs torn up so many yards, severed underground utilities, and more at too many of the subdivisions. It's almost criminal how negligent they are.
Really disappointing.
Hate to be a defender of City of Jackson, but the massive waterline break in Belhaven area with the 36 inch line that served not only the Belhaven area but most of South Jackson was done the same way, with a cable company being at fault.
But because Jackson is accustomed to having waterline breaks due to its 100 year old pipes (unlike Madison, Ridgeland, Clinton, Pelahatchie, PRV, etc - their break was treated as an as-usual failure on the City. But for at least that one major break, it was not their fault.
Difference is, evidently the City never got around to their 'negotiations' to settle the million dollar damage with the cable company. Bet in this case, PRV will not make the same mistake.
3 water tanks full of treated water wasted...... hmmm, that is a Tuesday afternoon in Jackson.
Hopefully, things will be repaired soon.
These companies have access to equipment that suppose to tell them where the lines are !
Most of the employees of contractors are barely taught basic PPE requirements and safety. Their primary concerns are shovel leaning and lunch break. On any given day at any given location, OSHA could show up and shut any one of them down with a hefty fine.
"@6:57 is correct on a lot of his post, but I think the guy that got airlifted was working on moving utilities for the Hoy Road widening. It didn’t have anything to do with repair from a boring contractor hitting something."
6:57 here. Didn't claim it was a 'boring contractor', just know it was someone working on the project. Not much difference. When you break the surface with heavy equipment even boring, the process, danger involved, required attention to detail and safety requirements are the same in all these situations. End result can be loss of life, damage to underground utilities or project setback for a week or two. The attitude is..."Meh, if we break shit, we'll fix it!"
CSpire subs hit water lines on my street last year. They destroyed yards, paved driveways and the streets. It took much longer than it should have to right most of the damage.
That said, being without water for one day just made me even happier I left Northeast Jackson years ago.
@8:34 PM - so Mr. reading comprehension failure - three huge water tanks were drained...that's real money.
Several years ago when subcontractors were laying AT&T fiber optic cable in my neighborhood in Brandon, they knocked out ALL utilities (water, power, gas, cable, regular phone, etc.). When I got home later that day, they had a hole to hell dug about 2 doors up from my house trying to get everything repaired. I'm not sure who those subs were, but they didn't give a shit about what they tore up. A few years after that, CSpire came thru laying their fiber, and their sub did a much better job. You almost couldn't tell that they had been there.
ATT sub boring contractor did a fine job on my street a few years ago.
Maybe there are anomalies in characteristics of some UG utility lines that make them hard to read on screen of boring machine.
I'm happy not to have overhead spaghetti of overhead cables and tilting poles all over, worth some UG risk.
@11:13…Clinton was incorporated in 1824 so no chance of them having old infrastructure
@8:23 has clearly never located a waterline. Locate equipment locates things with a current, such as electrical, telephone, etc. The only way to locate waterline with a current is if tracer wire (locate wire) was utilized in the ditch. Many old lines don't have tracer wire. And a metal detector doesn't work on PVC pipe.
So if you don't have tracer wire, or if the wire is broken, your only option is probing or potholing.
4:00 : Have located plenty of water lines. They all had leaks of course but I thank you for the education either way.
"So if you don't have tracer wire, or if the wire is broken, your only option is probing or potholing. February 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM"
And that's where care, caution and constant precision come in. More often than not, Bubba on the Backhoe exercises none of those. And nine times out of ten, it's Bubba on the Backhoe tearing up water lines. Is he ever fired or sanctioned? Hell no. He's first on the list to call for the next project.
It's all a network of testosterone-driven don't-give-a-shit attitudes of over-priced contracts and perpetual delays.
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