Thursday, August 4, 2022

Keep Boiling

 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

Customers on the City of Jackson's surface water system remain under a boil water notice until further notice. The advisory includes all City of Jackson surface water connections including areas of Byram and Hinds County.

Water samples taken Wednesday revealed a higher than standard level of turbidity (cloudiness) caused by the use of lime to increase pH levels. Samples showed a turbidity level of 3.5 turbidity units. This is above the standard of .30 turbidity units. While lime does not affect the filters or filtering process, the turbidity created by the lime increases the chance that the water may contain disease-causing organisms. 

This is a precautionary advisory. This notice does not mean that your water is unsafe, but it does mean you must take precaution and boil your water before use. All customers are advised to boil their drinking water. Water should be brought to a rolling boil for one minute for the following: cooking or baking, making ice cubes, taking medication, brushing teeth, washing food, mixing baby formula, mixing juices or drinks, feeding pets, washing dishes and all other consumption. 

The City continues to distribute cases of bottled water to residents in need on a daily basis while the boil water notice remains in effect. The use of lime is being monitored to ensure consistent levels are maintained. The cause of the treatment lapse has been identified and improvements are being made at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant to address the issue and decrease the possibility of a repeat occurrence. 

RESIDENTS WILL BE NOTIFIED IMMEDIATELY WHEN THE ADVISORY IS LIFTED. For more information, customers may call 601-960-2723 during business hours or 601-960-1875 after 4 p.m. and on weekends. General guidelines on ways to lessen the risk of infection by microbes are available from the EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. 

The City will continue to take water samples and provide updates once testing is completed. 


49 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is turbidity raw boo boo ?

Anonymous said...

Mmmm turdbitity. Y’all keep on drinking the water and ice from Jackson restaurants. I’m sure they’re all spending the money bringing in clean water/ice and/or boiling Jackson water before it’s used… LOL

Krusatyr said...

Pierce and squeeze the pus filled marxist Mayor to drain the boil.

Anonymous said...

"Keep boiling your water sheeple, and if you don't pay your very inaccurate water bill we will shut off your unsafe water."

Anonymous said...

No wonder the governor says everything in Jackson is a crisis, not just the bad water.

https://www.wapt.com/article/governor-takes-aim-at-jackson-for-not-doing-more-to-fix-water-crisis/40806425

Anonymous said...

This is all about personnel and executive incompetence to manage OBC staffing for optimal results.

Pre-soda ash migration all OBC used was lime and we NEVER had the frequency of turbidity problems now encountered by the minor leaguers currently running Jackson.

Past time for Lumumba to resign.

Anonymous said...

So turbidity has INCREASED???

Mayor - it's time to resign. Please don't drag the ship down because of your pride and ego.

Anonymous said...

I'm boiling alright.

Anonymous said...

Fortunately, natural gas and electricity are not provided by Jackistan, so y'all will still be able to boil your water, so suck it up or move; your choice.

Anonymous said...

Mayor Tubby @ :53 seconds.

Anonymous said...

1. Everyone leave town.
2. Call in an airstrike - calling Putin a short wimp or Xi Jinping a rice eating sissy should work.
3. Rebuild a new city from scratch

Anonymous said...

"this doesn't mean your water is unsafe".... what the hell does it mean then?

Anonymous said...

When does the documentary crew land? They ate before takeoff...........

Anonymous said...

Doesn't mean the water is unsafe but it is over 10 times the safety standard. Can't be much more dangerous than walking down a Jackson street or driving down the street by your self.

Anonymous said...

The water is as safe as driving at night in Jackson.

Anonymous said...

Is it safer to drink the water or drive in Jackson at night or alone?

Anonymous said...

Let me guess the mayor is in Atlanta. Why is he always over there?

Anonymous said...

I object to boiling my water.

Anonymous said...

I veto this announcement!

Anonymous said...

I object to this post

Anonymous said...

If you drive alone in Jackson after dark while drinking a tall glass of Jackson water you'll be taken directly to Whitfield.

Anonymous said...

I figured it out! Lamumba is going to all these municipality improvement conferences, because he's representing Jackson as the "before" picture. The rest of the cities get to represent themselves as the "after" picture.

Anonymous said...

I look forward to the inevitable Jerry Mitchell, Donner Kay, CBS News Special to let us know how this is all the white man's fault.

Anonymous said...

Chimneyville has become turbidtown

Anonymous said...

Anyone else been dealing with erratic, absurd bills, from city they expect you to pay despite raw sewage lingering in your local creeks for months...gotta love our water department.

Anonymous said...

Jackson's water is now officially classified as turd-did, right BooBoo?

fed up in Jackson said...

Wait…..I understood the mayor to say he did not agree with the boil water notice handed down from the state (“damned if you do, damned if you don’t”), so does this now mean he does agree with the boil water notice?

Anonymous said...

How much is enough?

Water
Roads
Crime
Education
Garbage Collection
Taxes-including now 'special tax zones'..
Racing on city streets/interstates

What will be your last straw?

You only get so many revolutions around the sun. Things are not improving in Jackson. While Jackson had a glorious past (this is true BWT..to those of us old enough to remember it...), it's no longer that city. It's no longer the jewel of Mississippi. It's not a place that brims with energy and hope anymore.

During a weekend morning, drive down Capitol Street from the Old Capitol on 100 state out to I220. Drive McDowell Road, or Terry Road, or Ellis Avenue. Take Medgar Evers in either direction. Drive up to Lake Hico--and drive Northside and State (west and north..). Look around and see the reality of what mayors and city council members let happen.

There's no "digging in", or staying to prove a point. The burbs in any direction have already taken steps to ensure the futures of their respective communities. We have clean water, low crime, decent roads (not great), excellent public schools, regular garbage collection, and our police care when we call. It's what we all remember about the pride we once had in Jackson. Life is still as great or better than the past on the perimeter of our once great metro city.

But it's your choice. Your life. Not mine to judge or preach. I'm just asking you one simple question:

What will be your last straw and what will do when it's broken?

Anonymous said...

KF, it appears our Senators in DC, and our legislature have Jackson and Hinds County in a neat "Catch 22" for the infrastructure fund "earmarked" for them.
They have to come up with matching funds that don't exist. It's an old trick a party in power uses to see their heavy hitters get federal money.
I would remind them that some of those live in Eastover and CCJ and I might catch local news occasionally and read this!

Anonymous said...

@12:09

I’ve heard that song before


“And we’re living here in Turbidtown, and they’re closing all the restaurants down”

Anonymous said...

@11:37 Atlanta can keep him. I wish he would move there

Anonymous said...

Flint 2.0

Anonymous said...

August 4, 2022 at 12:03 PM
For the win!

Anonymous said...

@ 10:16 & @ 10:18

Will bet you money he is re-elected with 70% of the vote.

Anonymous said...

@ 12:06

Mitchell is working on a story now connecting this to the 1960's.

Anonymous said...

Objection!

Krusatyr said...

'Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink', in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.

"Ancient Mariner": name of upcoming Geoff Goode Fish House?

Anonymous said...

Our water’s turbidity level is only 30 times higher than the accepted safe level. However, this doesn’t mean our water is not safe to drink. But, you should boil it anyway. - The Mayor himself must have written this one.

Anonymous said...

First day of school at JPS is Monday, August 8. In person, or virtual? Tick-tock.

Anonymous said...

1:13 - no matching funds????

What about the $44 million the city received in AARP money that was designed to go to infrastructure. Check out where your honor the mayor chose to spend most of that money - it wasn't on fixing the water or sewer system.

But, I know you already knew that, but were just trying to give your guy cover while he blames the problems on everybody else not helping.

Anonymous said...

"This is a precautionary advisory. This notice does not mean that your water is unsafe, but it does mean you must take precaution and boil your water before use. All customers are advised to boil their drinking water." Sure sounds unsafe. Wonder if the Mayor would drink a 8 oz glass in front of the cameras. He could then give his next presser from his bathroom throne.

Anonymous said...

You have been instructed not to ride alone or at night in Jackson. You can’t drink the water, you can’t drive on the pothole infested roads, you can flush your potty without it shooting boo boo out onto the street…Jamaica is better off than this place and I’ve seen people bathing in the ocean. But if you say anything you’re a racist. This once great place is gone. I was a holdout but I have realized that even the extreme wealth that NE Jackson holds can’t help this. It has nothing to do with money it’s all about race. “Free the Land”. But remember the Council of Concerned Citizens are still alive and well.

Anonymous said...

Dear God, Jeff Good’s begging and pleading commentary on WLBT this afternoon was embarrassing. Weak.

Anonymous said...

5 PM news on WLBT tonight. DAMNING.

Time for Lumumba to resign.

Anonymous said...

Jeff, don’t drive alone at night to get y’all’s bottled water and ice. Just saying…

Anonymous said...

"What about the $44 million the city received in AARP money..."

"What" would sure seem an appropriate word to start and "the" would be involved, but I think "what about the..." should be "what the fuck?"...$44 mil in AARP money?

Anonymous said...

Citizens now calling out Lumumba in TV news reporting. "Where's the Mayor?". He's lost the city.

Anonymous said...

You'll start to suspect your water is not safe when we tell you to pick out the biggest turbids out before boiling your water.



Signed
The Management



P.S.

The upper limit on the size of the turbids is the size of pipe coming into ypur house, so no worries about turbids much bigger than a quarter.

Anonymous said...

Why is the city handing out bottled water when it’s quicker, easier and more cost efficient to boil your own water?


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