Pearl Mayor Jake Windham issued the following statement.
The City of Pearl was placed under a state imposed boil water notice on June 27th by the Mississippi Department of health due to a failed monthly routine water sample (total coliform and ecoli).
This sample is one of 30 that are taken monthly throughout the whole city to ensure safe drinking water for citizens and visitors to our city, and we are providing bottled water to our affected restaurants and other businesses so that they can continue to serve their customers.
We found this out late in the day, and began to work on it immediately. All safety protocols are being taken by the city to resolve any issues and are currently taking secondary samples so that the boil water notices may be lifted by the department of health as quickly as possible.
The City’s first priority is the safety of all its citizens and visitors. We take great pride in what we do and are working diligently to resolve any issues.”
Kingfish note: The test sample came from a well serving southwest Pearl. A well, not surface water system. The Health Department placed the entire city under a boil water notice even though a limited area was served by the well.
The city stepped up and provided bottled water to businesses. That's leadership.
The city stepped up and provided bottled water to businesses. That's leadership.
7 comments:
Why’d the state have to find this in a monthly test? The city doesn’t sample more frequently for TC and e.coli? WHAT?!
@10:13 Look at it this way. Would you want the City of Jackson providing their on testing procedure and info about those results? Could you rely on the COJ to provide truthful results?
More than likely the water is fine. Probably a sample just got tainted. A drop of sweat could have gotten in the sample jar, a speck of trash, touching it in the wrong place with your finger, not sanitizing the sample faucet properly, etc.
@12:21
It doesn’t look like you know much about testing and safe water. Certainly it could be a tainted sample. Though I don’t know for certain, but standard protocol around the industry is a retest. Wanna bet they did one? (the right amswer is “yes”). The wrong place that chem technician touched anything it was their ass, and they didn’t wash - only though if that’s the source of the tainted water.
More likely, the city employees didn’t notice the chemical injection failure and ignored in-process alarms that would have alerted them. Those alarms don’t work? Thank god the state provides oversight over these incompetents. Pearl, with close relatives to the goon squad, is a city in peril.
If the state comes in, will it make Pearl less black? Asking for Chuck.
30 samples are taken monthly from different locations in Pearl.
South Jackson is also on a boil water notice.
I live in Pearl.
There is a boil water alert?
I missed it and been drinking the water all along.
No health issues yet.
I did think the water tasted a little germy. Burp!
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