Ag Commish Andrew Gipson issued the following statement.
Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson announced the Mississippi State Fairgrounds is open to provide the public with access to non-potable water beginning today, December 28, at 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. in order to assist with the current Jackson water situation.
“The water well at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds is fully operational. The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce and our Fairgrounds Division is pleased to have the ability to share our resources to assist the public during times like this,” said Commissioner Gipson.
In making preparations to obtain water at the Fairgrounds, the public should be aware of the following:
- You must enter the Mississippi State Fairgrounds at Gate 1, located at the intersection of Jefferson Street and Amite Street.
- You must bring your own containers with lids to fill. The Fairgrounds does not supply containers.
- You can begin accessing water today, December 28, at 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. The Fairgrounds will be open for water container fill-up Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. until further notice.
- The Mississippi State Fairgrounds is located at 1207 Mississippi Street, Jackson, Miss.
24 comments:
So the Preacher Man spent $??? million of your tax money to drill a water well, and the water isn't drinkable? Well played,Cowboy!
Oh wee… doesn’t he know the mayor will be mad and bad mouth him publicly because he is upstaging him. Someone better tell Andy to beware. Da mayor will be furious
Who wants that non potable water? You can’t drink it or cook with it.
Nice move.
But, why is it non-potable? Thought the well was producing some of 'the finest Mississippi Grown' possible, according to the early announcements when the well first gushed.
The city is plagued with low to no water pressure. That means you can't flush a toilet. You can use non drinkable water for that. I believe the Commish drilled a well; I don't think he built a purification plant. The fairgrounds uses a lot of water for things other than drinking.
It was never meant to be drinkable. It was made for horses and livestock to drink along with flushing toilets and day to day operations at the fairgrounds.
@1:56 and 2:09, when Preacher Man Andy spent your tax dollars to drill that well he claimed he would tie into the municipal system so he could "supply all the State government buildings with a reliable source of drinkable water". Just another lie from a Mississippi public official?
12:33 people who want to flush toilets probably.
Just a guess.
Maybe filtration is in the future plan, Bill? I am not defending the dumb hat man and maybe this was empty posturing for politics sake but Jesus, y'all save up all the anger for the wrong people.
What is in LuDumbo's plan? Has the hat or the clown done more damage? Has Chuck or Andrew failed Jackson more?
In true Dem fashion y'all attack the 1st white man you see and defend the years of corruption by the minority.
Make sure you join Sister Rukia and the 'Poor People' when they assemble to protest Andy and the non-potable water at the Fairgrounds.
There should be a baptism booth at the Fairgrounds. Pay to throw a ball, hit the trigger and drop the sinner.
Well water doesn't always need to be 'treated' or 'purified' in order to be drinkable. So, 1L56 and 2:09 - the lack of building a treatment plant is not indicative.
But - lets go back to the initial announcement of this project:
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Ag Commissioner Andy Gipson says drilling on the fairgrounds, in hopes of finding natural drinking water for fairground use, begins on Wednesday, June 30.
They are putting in a test drilling rig. The rig is drilling down several hundred feet until it reaches a water source.
Once the source is reached, the water will be tested, and Gibson says he believes it will be drinking water quality.
Once this happens, Gibson says, they will build a well, and have the option to use their own water.
Notice that next to last sentence - Gibson says he believes it will be drinking water quality.
He later proposed extending his well service to the Capitol area to supply water for the entire Complex.
So - I ask again; what happened to his Mississippi Grown water; is it now not drinkable?
Bill Dees, the well water on the Fairgrounds is potable and all the drinking water on the Fairgrounds comes from the well. It is being distributed as non potable because people are bringing their own containers and if someone drinks it and gets sick, there is nothing the Fairgrounds could do about it. During the water shutdown earlier this year, all the non potable water supplied by National Guard tankers also came from the Fairgrounds. It was non potable because the tankers were rated non potable, not because the water wasn't clean.
The point of making fairgrounds well-water available is this: non-potable water is fine for pets (they do need water), for bathing and for other purposes unrelated to human-consumption purposes.
I'm betting the water source at the fairgrounds IS indeed drinkable aka potable but when it leaves the fairgrounds in who knows what vessels brought by the public all bets are off as to it's being potable once it's portable.
Not sure how deep to dig the well but can you imagine the absolute shit of over a century and half of contaminants seepin down feom the surface of the fairgrounds
The water tower at the Jackson Int. Airport supplies ALL the potable water used at the airport since 1963 or 64 with no kind of treatment facility required. IF it did don't you think it would be dysfunctional by now?!
I hear that Rukia has plenty of drinking water at her home in Ridgeland.
If the choices are no water or water I can only flush/supply to an animal for survival, I will take the less ideal over nothing.
Having the nerve to breathe a word in the direction of anyone in state government regarding this fiasco should disqualifying for your other opinions.
So you thought the CoJ could end the revenue collecting side of water operations, effectively killing the enterprise, and then scream "WHITEY!!!". You are dishonest in a way that should be disqualifying.
Potable or not, this is leadership. Far more than the current mayor or governor has shown…
Here are the phone numbers, and fax, at the main office, give Andy a call, Phone: (601) 359-1100
Phone: (800) 551-1830
Fax: (601) 354-6290
I dare guess that most all of our predecessor's wells throughout rural MS and the nation might not pass today's standards for drinking water... but provided for folks for hundreds of years.
December 28, 2022 at 8:45 PM, now damit, don't go telling stuff that is true, you will hurt someone's feefees. They thought they had a got you moment. I bet Santa didn't bring you anything.
The fairgrounds well supplies the onsite drinking fountains.
It's been ten days and nobody has either confirmed or countered the post at 10:58. I'd like to know.
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