Friday, January 12, 2024

JXN Water: No E.Coli Present in Water

 JXN Water issued the following statement. 

Repeat samples were taken from the JXN Water system after the state lab reported E-coli was present in two samples from the JXN Water system and two in Flowood on January 11, 2024.  The repeat sampling is a requirement of the EPA Revised Total Coliform Rule. Repeat sampling provides confirmation under the rule. No violation of the E-coli standard under the Safe Drinking Water Act is issued without confirmation.

The six required repeat samples – taken from the sample locations with the positive results reported on January 11, 2024, and the nearest upstream and downstream sample locations – were taken and delivered to the state laboratory on January 11, 2024.  The state laboratory notified JXN Water this morning that all six samples were negative – no E-coli was present.

“Confirmation is an integral part of the process as defined in the EPA Total Coliform Rule to ensure there were no sampling or analysis errors before taking action that can needlessly scare consumers and create significant impact to water related businesses in the service area,” said Ted Henifin, the Interim Third-Party Manager of JXN Water. “I still do not understand why the Mississippi Department of Health issued the city-wide boil water notice before confirming the initial results. The damage to confidence in our water system and economic impact to our area businesses is enormous.”

JXN Water will continue to conduct the sampling of all 120 sample locations today and tomorrow to meet the MSDH requirement of obtaining clear samples from all sample locations on two consecutive days before the state will lift the boil water notice issued on January 11, 2024.


19 comments:

It's Water under the Bridge said...

So the MSDH did make a boo-boo? (See what I did there?)

Anonymous said...

Ted is 'Da Man!!!
Thank goodness for Ted and JXN Water - thank you Judge Wingate and Gov Reeves.

Anonymous said...

Shit happens.

Anonymous said...

So, the short story is that the Mississippi State Department of Health did not follow established and manualized protocol.

This is the same agency, that, on another thread or two on this blog, is all hung up in questioning the safety of Medical Cannabis. And they're lost in the weeds on that one as well.

And don't come up in here with that 'abundance of caution' crap. Protocol is protocol. You deviate from it; you should be terminated.

Anonymous said...

Good job, Mr. Henifin. Sure am glad you're in the position you are in.

Anonymous said...

So can we drink the f'ing water or not? This has "the anti Jxn Water crowd(the ones turning on fire hydrants to drop water pressure all over town) written all over it and us normal folks in Flowood don't put up with this BS and don't drag us into Chokwe's mess.

W. Carter said...

Jax Water has essentially saved Jackson! !! Thank God For Ted and company!! He has showed us that the water/system can be run competently and professionally and we don’t have to live like a third world country. Thank you
Ted!

Anonymous said...

I don’t know, 1:20 PM—why don’t you check with the state’s department of health since this is between you and them. Us normal folks in Jackson don’t put up with a lack of reading comprehension.

Anonymous said...

sister couldnt get hands on the 800 mill so she went another direction

Anonymous said...

1:56 said "...normal folks in Jackson..."

Get this man a Netflix comedy special.

Anonymous said...

"Medical Cannabis". ROFLMAO

Anonymous said...

It's probably a good thing Tate Reeves is governor.

He'll find somewhere to place the blame quickly.

Anonymous said...

Reeves won the election, 2:40, get over it.

2:00 pm: very astute comment.

Anonymous said...

Yeah...the minute it was lifted everyone with a triple digit IQ knew the MS Dept of Health was either playing politics to make Jackson look bad again as few read " the good news" as it's buried in a paragraph outside the city limits or someone at the healthy dept's nickname is Chicken Little.

Anonymous said...

"normal folks in Jackson"...you mean the one's who bring their trash to other cities to get thrown away instead of piling it up, or the one's who are accustomed to paying an incorrect bill for non-drinkable water. Carry on yee ole educated one who has grown accustomed to third world living.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, 4:27, i was referring to an idiotic comment from your local Flowoodian. Which, to be fair, is very normal. And I’m also grateful to Henifin and the entire JXN Water team for getting in front of the cameras and getting MSDH’s mess sorted out way sooner than Monday. If it weren’t for Henefin, 200,000 people and a lotta businesses would still be boiling water.

Anonymous said...

Definitely a Mess

Anonymous said...

"I still do not understand why the Mississippi Department of Health issued the city-wide boil water notice before confirming the initial results."

I guess because it's a matter of public safety, which is more important than Henifin's public image.

Anonymous said...

8:06 pm The Dept of Health tested surface water. They said so.

Surface water hasn't been treated.

Ted's response was so diplomatic that I'm in awe of his self-control!

His public image is excellent because he is competent and doesn't succumb to political idiocy!-


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