Water production at the O.B. Curtis plant continue to improve as a team of experts continue to fix the long-neglected facility. The plant produced 25 million gallons of water yesterday, half of its 50 million gallon capacity. The Fewell plant produced 27 million gallons yesterday. Pressure was at 87 PSI.
The daily MEMA command incident reports show a long list of repairs and replacements of parts made. However, the pros from Dover are on the ground and making things happen.
City of Jackson statement
The O.B. Curtis Water Plant remained at a steady pressure over the past 24 hours and is currently working at 87 PSI. Pressure should be stable throughout city.
Overall, water production continues to improve. Yesterday, the O.B. Curtis membrane plant increased from 14.1 million gallons to 15.4 million gallons. The conventional side remained steady. This is the type of capacity increase the team has been working toward.
Yesterday, the cleaning of conventional sedimentation basin #3 was completed and that basin has been returned to service today. Conventional sedimentation basin #2 has been taken offline for cleaning and sediment removal today. The Ammonia water feed line was restored yesterday. This will significantly improve water quality over the next three days. The repaired raw water pump is expected to arrive today. Work will begin tomorrow to place the raw water pump back in service.
Investigative sampling will continue today to monitor water quality. At this time the distribution system is not ready for full sampling to clear the boil water notice. We will continue to evaluate when full sampling can begin. This is contingent upon sustained pressure. We will need two rounds of clear samples to be able to remove the boil water notice.
If you are experiencing discolored water or no pressure please report using this tool https://arcg.is/0LDmjb. This will allow us to track any remaining issues and address them. We are currently monitoring this information to respond as needed.
35 comments:
Kingfish, you said the 3 key words............."team of experts".
Why do they keep saying impacted by recent flooding? The plant has been down many times before the flood. Besides it is a water plant. It should be water proof.
Water has been coming up through Pearl street downtown all week. I wonder how many leaks are springing up all over Jackson with the increased pressure?
11:08- that's the magic word that does wonders - its what Lumumba uses to cover up for his years of ignoring the needs, bankrupting the system, and refusing to fund necessary staff; its also the word that Lumumba can repeat to the national media who fawn over him and his blaming whity for all our problems; but more importantly, it is the magic word that backed Biden into answering 'disaster declaration request' and therefore floods the plant with federal dollars (otherwise, the state would have to fund these repairs as part of taking over the system.)
@11:13 AM - The mayor will soon be announcing that those water leaks are being caused by the current freezing temperatures, or climate change, or floods, or locusts, or gun shows, or "open carry," or MAGA republicans, or white flight, or Jim Crow laws, or racism, or ...
I wonder how many leaks are springing up all over Jackson with the increased pressure?
Lumumba had directed the plant to provide water at a lower overall system pressure in order to reduce the potential for system leaks. He was right-sizing the pressure to meet the 'fragile' condition of the distribution system.
Doubt Jackson's megalomaniac Mayor would say that?
@11:31, you forgot the semi-fascists.
Lumumba OUT!!! I thought people in NE Jackson we’re going to buy billboards asking the mayor to resign
Or was this simply due to there white guilt and called racist?
@11:08 I agree that the flooding is not the issue. The plant did not flood.
However, water plants aren't "waterproof". You would not want one to flood.
@11:45
Funny how the mayor demonizes whites yet he would never allow NE Jackson area of Eastover Sheffield waterstone meadowbrook heights etc to leave for flowood. See he knows he needs whites especially in those areas with high tax payer dollars. So he does know the piggy bank yet publicly denies whites are needed
Great Things JXN!!!
According to a person who worked at the water plant years ago, the weather caused a shutdown of pumps at the water plant. When they got the pumps back on line they increased the output pressure of the pumps. They forgot they had increased the pressure and a little later pipes were springing leaks all over Jackson.
The libraries and the zoo should be taken over next.
The incident report reads like a 100 dumpster fires.
The condition OBC was in should be treated as criminal negligence and everyone involved starting with Boy Chok should be arrested.
A Complete state takeover of the City of Jackson and removal of Boy Chok is in order.
Something in all of these blog threads (subjects) is missing. I finally figured it out....Where the hell is Kenny Stokes?
We did manage to hear Senator Horne yesterday on Supertalk proclaim that racism does play a role. Floating turds are no respecter of race.
The City Council just voted unanimously to spend every dime of remaining ARPA funds on water/sewer infrastructure. Kenneth Stokes made the motion and said we can’t keep ignoring advice from state/feds and continue to their handouts. That
means $0 thrown away on Antar’s Soul City Farish Street and $0 for the purchase of Batte Furniture bldg for the Tisdale Library. Antar wanted a new building. Foote said we have no business buying more buildings when we don’t take care of the ones we have.
FINALLY. Stuff it down Antar’s throat.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11195123/Jackson-resident-tells-unknowingly-gulped-contaminated-water.html
@1:12 - 'According to sources', how does the weather cause a shut-down of the pumps? Hot, cold, windy, barometric pressure, humidity, cloudy? Asking for somebody who used to follow this conversation but gave up.
1:12 - close, but no cigar.
Yes, the rain caused problems with the water that entered the plant (due to the plant not having been maintained and the testing equipment that would have told them what was coming hasn't worked for years, but we digress) and the had to get the untreated water out. And it overwhelmed the pumps that were in place - which were auxillary pumps - because a month earlier the main pumps failed and had not been repaired or replaced. The auxillary pumps were much smaller and they could not handle the load of the bad water, so they had to shut them down temporarily to get rid of the 10 million gallons of untreated water.
Nobody 'forgot' about the increased pressure - and that is just a red herring being drug across Jackson's potholed streets to screw the scent up for the media that is investigating this mess. Oh wait, there is no media actually doing any investigation, so I guess Lumumba threw that red herring out just because he didn't want to talk about the problems he created.
The pumps failing a month before the flood was the problem. The 'flood' in the reservoir did create problems because the plant was working with smaller, auxillary pumps - because the city did not do anything about getting the main pumps fixed.
The system operating pressure of 87psi hasn't caused pipes all over the city to rupture as our honorable Mayor has now suggested. And the state team operating the system got the pressure back up without the main pumps being installed - using a rented pump as an addition (something the Mayor and his administration either didn't consider doing or didn't give a damn about the city and its residents and didn't bother to install a rental. Its no doubt that the city knows how to rent pumps - they have been renting multiple sewer bypass pumps for years!)
The biggest detriment to the future of Jackson is Chokwe Antar Lumumba. His excuses for inaction — past, present, and future — have suffocated us. He’s been absolutely atrocious.
I don’t believe a word the city puts out about this crisis. The Gov. Is not my favorite, but I do find that his honor is impeccable. I do trust him and trust what he says is true.
This city has failed on so many levels that it shows incompetency as its method of operation of day to day activities. How in the world did it get to this? Danks was in office when the O B Curtis plant was built. So, how can they blame him or Ditto for its troubles? The water system was run perfectly fine with them but when Harvey Johnson became mayor THAT’S when the neglect started occurring. How can anyone say this is because of white flight or the white population when clearly there was nothing done positive with any of the black mayors? I’m just stating the facts.
Zoo needs to be rescued? The mayor already had that reopened before practical people could move it out of West Jxn blight to Northeast Jxn near Lakeland ballpark?
I just want to say to all the Antar critics in the above comments, we agree.
We did manage to hear Senator Horne yesterday on Supertalk proclaim that racism does play a role.
Horhn will have to tread very carefully with that rhetoric considering the composition of his district post-redistricting. All those soundbites will come back to haunt him next year.
Writing on the wall. Purge is underway. Only a matter of time now before one of the troopers frags Omari. Sho-nuff.
What happened to Richards Disposal and free flowing poo? Im curious with all the smoke and mirrors going on currently.
There is still a Zoo? Like a real zoo you can visit? When you don't have clean and reliable water? How much does the City pay for that each year?
3:04 PM,I wasn't talking about the latest fubar. This happened several years ago.
Didn't anyone working at the water plant notice it was raining almost every day? They should have walked outside and looked up. If they had been working there for any time they should have known what a large rise in the lake level would do.
And true, they did not forget they had increased the pressure on the pumps. The person who had increased the pressure was not working there any longer and no one who was working there even knew it was possible to change the pressure output.
Hopefully this team has performed an assessment of Fewell. I would suspect the incompetent management effects aren't confined to Curtis.
2:56 PM,the weather does not shut down the pumps. The people working there do not know what they are doing and Boy Chok, I like that name, has to come up with some cause rather than telling the truth.
Just like 48" underground pipes do not freeze up here in Ms. It is all just blame passing. Or maybe they are telling Boy Chok those tall tales and he isn't smart enough to know any better.
I get a kick out of the liberal White folks that start their posts
with "I don't like Tate, but he did fix the water ... "
I am not Tate fan, but I agree with 3:13 that I trust him.
And the reason that I feel he is trustworthy is largely due to the fact that any minor slip up he makes will be on CNN.
Chuckles could burn down a fully occupied orphanage and murder 60 puppies on camera and the media would say he razed an old building and implemented a new money saving animal control policy.
The reason Antard lies and Tate doesn't (as much) is accountability.
The voters and libturd journos enable and champion minority ineptitude.
The impoverished and uneducated deserve better.
The mair reminds me of a friend we call FIG JAM - Fuck I'm Great, Just Ask Me.
Meanwhile it appears that the garbage contract debacle has miraculously fixed itself.
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