Monday, August 29, 2022

Flooding Creates Water Plant Problems

 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

The flooding of the Pearl River has created problems with treating water at the O.B. Curtis Water Plant. Adjustments to the water treatment process are being made and has led to a temporary decrease in the production of water for some areas. This will remain an issue for the next couple days as we work to refill the tanks. The City will continue to update residents on the status of the system when we have additional information. We remain under a boil water notice. 

Kingfish note: Um, why didn't the 2020 flood affect the plant?  Let's see, the plant gets the water from the Rez, not the river.  Mayor Danks, rest his soul, built that plant so it would not be affected by flooding.  He was Mayor during the 1979 flood and was not going to allow a 100-year flood to interfere with Jackson's new water plant.  


22 comments:

Anonymous said...

And this caused some State offices to close today, meanwhile Chucky wants the supreme court to rule in his favor on his veto vote. He needs to repay that kickback money to Richards and start acting like a responsible mayor

Anonymous said...

I guarantee you that Chokwe keeps the water on for his gated estate in Northeast Jackson.

Anonymous said...

The mayor was asked about this Saturday, and he said it wouldn't be an issue. There's more to this.

Anonymous said...

But, but, but betcha somewhere in Jackson the Emperor Polluter is discharging untreated raw sewage today.

Anonymous said...

Northeast Jackson is now a shell of her former self. It makes me sick. Trash everywhere, yards needing cutting, Ridgewood Road in continuing decline (see south Jackson for a primer), cars in yards, gunshots a way of life, lawlessness. So sad, the disintegration of 39211.

Bill Dees said...

Dale Danks should never have decided to locate the O B Curtis water plant in a flood zone.

Kingfish said...

Do you really think Dale built a plant in a flood zone without elevating it after 79? Seriously.

There is a something else going on here and I have a pretty good idea what it is. Right.

Anonymous said...

Dees, according to the Book of Chokwe Antar it was a racist decision. Danks had the vision to know that decades far down the road the location of OBC would screw over the black community. Glory to Baba Chokwe.

Anonymous said...

I smell a BS here. The OB Curtis is on the reservoir, not on the river. The reservoir is not flooding. Suspect this is a garbage excuse.

Anonymous said...

Jackson is just a hell-hole.
I feel for the restaurants that are having to deal with this crap. Our stupid mayor is doing nothing but worrying about Richards and getting his way. He's never given a flying farther about Jackson, yet he'd be re-elected tomorrow. I hate this city.

Anonymous said...

Sometimes I get the feeling that this mayor's idea of what it means to be the mayor is simply him giving press conferences: he stands before a microphone, pontificates, answers some questions, and things are, just because of that, supposed to happen, clean water starts to flow, garbage gets hauled away, businesses spawn, jobs get created, people are lifted out of poverty, and all because this mayor went before some television cameras.

Anonymous said...

Jackson = 3rd World Country

Good news property values cannot go below $0

Anonymous said...

The state and/or feds are coming.

Anonymous said...

Can anyone confirm whether there actually was any flooding that affected the plant? According to the USACE interactive map thingy, the plant and the access road are supposed to be unaffected even at 36 feet.

Anonymous said...

I'm going to make a wild guess that something can't be delivered to the plant because of the flooding, and that something is stored in tanks

Anonymous said...

3:23 PM
Makes me glad my wife and I moved out of NEJ in 2020. We were on Kings Place.

Anonymous said...

August 29, 2022 at 3:37 PM, do you write for the Babylon Bee? That's talented sarcasm you are posting.

Anonymous said...

A water problem? In Jackson, Mississippi, you say? I don't believe you.

Anonymous said...

And my lib acquaintances are blasting Tate for the plight of the Jxn resident on Twitter.

I loathe knowing that so many people who vote and procreate have the IQ of ham sandwich.

Must be hard to admit the chosen leader of the Free Land is an abject failure and needs help from the pale face.

Anonymous said...

5:23
Not all liberals are stupid. I don't think Tater Tot had anything to with it.

Jackson does just happen to have an idiot politician in charge who happens to be liberal.

Lumumba doesn't know how to be in charge. Hire whoever needs to be hired, regardless of where they live. The residency requirement is downright dumb. I understand the reason for it, but it is having the wrong effect. Nobody wants to live in Jackson. If I had to live in the city to get a job, I would just look elsewhere.

How about dropping the residency requirement, and then do what is necessary to make Jackson a nicer place to live.

Anonymous said...

From WLBT:

"Because of the river water coming into the plant, we have had to change the way we treat the water. The chemical composition of the water coming in, we [had] to figure out how to contend with the water coming in," Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said during a Monday press conference. "It has led to the reduction of water being put out into the system, which consequently, reduces tank levels and affects, systemwide, the water pressure in the homes of our residents."

Curtis brings in water from the reservoir. During floods, the makeup of the water changes and can have higher turbidity, more sediment, and more organic materials in it.

Lumumba said the city should experience some relief as water levels along the Pearl continue to drop and as less water is being released from the Barnett Reservoir.

**
Two points:

1. What the mayor is saying, if true, is that they shut down the water plant because they don't have an operator competent to treat river water. Like KF said, why doesn't every flood affect it? Maybe chockfullofit just now thought of that excuse?
2. If the plant withdraws water from the rez, and dirty river water entering the rez is the problem, then what does less water being released from the rez have to do with it?

Anonymous said...

The O.B. Curtis plant was NEVER flooded. Chocolate Lumber continues to twist the narrative to fit his media appearances.

Perhaps today the STATE will come in and get it re-started, and with all the water trucks and bottled water coming in today, Mayor Lumblabber will be put in his place.


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