Sunday, September 4, 2022

Improvement Continues at OBC

 The city of Jackson issued the following statement. 

The O.B. Curtis Water Plant again made significant gains overnight and into this morning. The total plant output has increased to 90 PSI. This is exceeding our goal of 87 PSI or better. The outlook continues to be positive. However, additional challenges as repairs and adjustments are made do leave potential for  fluctuations in progress.  

All tanks saw increased storage levels overnight. Multiple tanks are approaching full. We no longer have any tanks at low levels. All of Jackson should now have pressure and most are now experiencing normal pressure.

Work continues in the plant today on both the membrane and conventional systems with city staff and mutual aid teams from Georgia and Florida rural water associations. Today, repair and maintenance work continue at the O.B. Curtis plant to increase water quantity and water quality. Membrane Plant Train #5 was restored to service yesterday which allows for Membrane Train #3 to be cycled to cleaning today. Today, the focus is on restoring the sludge plant to full operation. The work to repair the Anhydrous Ammonia tank leak continued through night. It is expected to be complete today.

If you are experiencing discolored water or no pressure please alert us using this online reporting tool https://arcg.is/0LDmjb. This will allow us to track any remaining issues and address them. 

We are hopeful that we will be able to begin the sampling process midweek. This is contingent upon sustained pressure. We will need two rounds of clear samples to be able to remove the boil water notice. We will alert residents as soon as this happens. 

26 comments:

Anonymous said...

I’m sure the City was going to take care of all of this before the State stepped in.
I veto these improvements. How dare the state take credit for this?

Anonymous said...

I remember how brave I thought Alan Sheppard was for going on that first space mission. I feel the same way about the first person who drinks the Jackson water after they say it is clean. Why not get some local prisoners in jails to be the official tasters.

Anonymous said...

I went from perfect pressure the last couple days to lower pressure this morning. What gives? I live near the plant.

Anonymous said...

"Work continues in the plant today on both the membrane and conventional systems with city staff and mutual aid teams from Georgia and Florida rural water associations."

Completely left out the state who is probably doing most of the work.

Anonymous said...

This is what it looks like to tackle a problem instead of just talking about it.

Anonymous said...

1. This was ghost written by someone not employed by the COJ, i.e. MEMA, etc.
2. Things are getting better now that there are adults in the room.
3. Has Chowke made it back from Ft. Lauderdale yet? If y'all believe that he didn't go there last night I have a bridge for sale.

Kingfish said...

Justin Vicery probably wrote it. He was at the CL and SH for years. He now works in comms at the city.

Anonymous said...

Well gol darn it the State will want people in West Jax to pay their waterbills. Water is a RIGHT. It's only "equitable" as our esteemed mayor would say

Anonymous said...

I’m getting the distinct impression that the 2 water plants have been producing at %50 capacity or less for years. Kingfish is there any way to determine this? It really hit me when Lamumbalot made the “brittle pipe” water leak comment a couple of days ago.

Anonymous said...

When you are stuck at the C-L you'll drink any kool-aid offered to you.

Anonymous said...

Didn't I read somewhere the entire city staff consists of two people. These two are probably the entire staff that messed up things in the first place. Maybe they should set them on a bench outside so the rest of the people can do the work needed.

Anonymous said...

I live in Jackson but left town last week to get away from this debacle. My friends up here where I’m staying tell me that Chokwe is definitely
lobbying for a plum Federal government appointment and will not run for re-election after the midterms. ....which is great news for the Jackson citizens.

Anonymous said...

@11:45 You've made my day!! Thanks for this news!

Anonymous said...

He'd be a great fit for Biden's team. He's certainly qualified to head up the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or some other high agency job that needs a programmatic organized deep system thinker.

Anonymous said...

😂 the lyingpress gettin PAID💲while kingfish holds out his hat for donations!
Y’all better be donating something, damn

Anonymous said...

If I remember correctly, until very recently Lumumba was telling his constituents that the water was safe to drink, and he drinks it himself. Total BS.

At some point, the dedicated work of a few real reporters must be developed into an oversight investigation report. Now that state and federal money are being used, maybe some body at that level can/will do it.

Anonymous said...

Whoever wrote the bulletin was just writing what he/she was told to write. That's how they keep a job. No doubt this writer was ordered not to in Luke state efforts to bail out this sorry city.

Anonymous said...

11:33

No, the plants normally produce at 85-90psi. If pressure drops below a threshold of something like 60psi a boil water notice is required due to possible infiltration, which has been the case with most of the boil water notices.

The mayor's comment about the pipes busting is just another part of his whole attempt to change the narrative. He is trying everything to avoid this administration's responsibility with failure of O.B Curtis. With his insistence that the flood inundated Curtis and yelling failing infrastructure (the pipes) and using a $2B number to fix things (that $2B is to fix the pipes, both water and sewer).

Obfuscation at it's finest and abetted by the media.

I have a question. Was Michigan (the state) blamed for Flint's water crisis, like Mississippi is being attempted to be blamed for Jackson'S?

Anonymous said...

Check out Antar's live interview on ABC's "This Week" this morning. The location wasn't disclosed, and hopefully Tate was watching.

Anonymous said...

I guess it’s true Michael Guest only uses NE Jackson for fundraisers bc I never hear from him in these type of situations. He represents ne Jackson

Anonymous said...

Has anyone heard of the plans for maintaining the plant when this is over? If the city gets to take over again, it'll be down in no time.
I pray to God this doesn't happen.

Anonymous said...

I don't expect to ever drink Jackson water fr the tap again, haven't for years, but would like to wash dishes with it and to filter it adequately for soup and coffee.

This mayor will never have sufficient credibility to sell Jackson water as potable.

Anonymous said...

11:45 AM
Any word on what position he's gunning for? Also do your friends run in political circles?

Anonymous said...

The state is supposed to get about $429 million dollars from Biden's infrastructure bill dedicated to improving water, and sewer systems.

The appropriation of these funds should be watched very carefully, considering the history of elected officials in this state. These monies shouldn't be wasted.

Anonymous said...

The real long term problems with the COJ water system are yet to be revealed or addressed. Once the immediate ‘quantity and quality’ issues are corrected, the State (and FEDs I presume) will be faced with the funding issues in the infrastructure/pies and admin/accountability aspects. SURELY, neither group will return any amount of control over the funds for either to the COJ. SURELY.

Anonymous said...

So who is paying for all this ? The City ?
State ? Feds?


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