Monday, July 10, 2023

Fixing the Leaks

JXN Water released a video today that shows the progress made in repairing Jackson's water system.  The short video is posted below.  Enjoy. 


JXN Water May Video Update from JXN Water on Vimeo.


40 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like money well spent and managed. And, there's no more talk about a new plant -- instead, it's fixing the supply lines to mitigate losses.

Anonymous said...

Jordan Hillman is in over her head, but I like her. She has potential to be part of the solution. She will grow and develop and can continue to be a real asset.

I love seeing Lumumba in the ad looking like he knows something. What an incompetent fool he is. Why do people vote for him?

Glad they are getting some stuff fixed. I hate that the clowns in Jackson ran a good water system into the ground.

Anonymous said...

Equitable uh?

Anonymous said...

In my office we drink bottled water. All employees have hand sanitizer. We pee and poop using Jackson water, but no one makes contact with the water.

Better safe than sorry.

Anonymous said...

How much was spent making this video? How much did was paid to a third party vendor to make this video? What is the financial impact this video is anticipated to make?

Once again, this is another example of Ted wasting dollars and spending money in the wrong places.

Quit talking about the problem and making videos about the problem and fix the damn problem.

Kingfish said...

My dog gets bottled water after Giardia this year. My dogs got it years ago, went to bottled water for them. Went back to tap this year for this one and here it came. Vet said he saw a higher incidence of such diseases from Jackson dogs and cats over the last two years.

Anonymous said...

11:03 - "Always with the negative vibes. Woof, woof".

Anonymous said...

Equitable ? how about functioning , reliable and clean .

let me know when accountability and responsibility make a dramatic return to Jackson's populace .

moved here from Knoxville and it's like stepping back in time ...

Anonymous said...

11:35 I think 11:03 was very pragmatic. You obviously like fluff in your diet.

Anonymous said...

@11:03...a video like this is cheap these days..I may not have cost anything.
and yes, 10:50, it is simply a function of being COMPETANT.. there has never been a need for a new plant- OBC can supply 2-3x more water than Jackson needs now that it doesn't "flood" anymore...what a moron Chockalot is!

Anonymous said...

So 12 MGD went through the line before the repair? Now that the repair is made only need 7 MGD through the line??? Horse hockey!!! Anyone can make up numbers!!!

Anonymous said...

Remember when the dumbass mayor was running to every camera he could find and yelling that the COJ needed a brand new water plant. God what a total clown

Anonymous said...

"Why do people vote for him?" Really...You gotta ask that?

Anonymous said...

Speaking to the video, and not the disaster that is Jackson's water system: I almost stopped watching the video when I heard the word "equitable," but I continued as long as I could to the up-talking of the video's narrator. Couldn't finish it.

When did the whole up-talking trend start? As if the word "like" being used every other word isn't bad enough, up-talking might as well be nails on a chalkboard! It's as if every sentence is asking the listener a question. Might as well end every sentence with "you know?" or "nomesayn?"

Anonymous said...

@ 10:54 He will get re-elected with 70% of the vote. The people that vote for this idiot care nothing about public safety, clean water, a functioning sewer system or garbage collection. The people that vote for him always look for someone else to blame for their situation and will not lift one finger to help themselves.

Anonymous said...

Jackson’s population is down 59,000 people since since 1980. People say we need a new water system to be able to accommodate 59000 less people. By the way, they are still leaving town. And, the vast majority of those leaving town were the ones actually paying their water bills if they were in fact receiving their water bills.

Anonymous said...

The video is a joke. The mayor and his cronies wearing yellow safety vests and hard hats standing next to a pipe (where no work is being done) is clearly designed to make him look like he is committed to Jackson and "on the job."

Anonymous said...

That's an awful lot of spick-and-span hard hats on the jobsite with not a single sticker on one of them. Remember the six, sometimes seven stages of a project

1. Wild enthusiasm,
2. Disillusionment,
3. Confusion
4. Panic
5. Search for the guilty,
6. Punishment of the innocent
6. Praise/honor/promotion for the nonparticipants.

Crapgame said...

Hilarious reference, Oddball!

Anonymous said...

I am pretty sure this video was made my internal staff who is running the website and all communication. Not an extra contract.

It might be hard for a boomer to understand, but making high quality videos is not that hard these days.

Anonymous said...

2:40, please post your contract for running the website and all communication. We will review it and find out if your own staff made the video.

Anonymous said...

Downloaded this video to make GIF of the half-Mayor bobblehead @ 1:28.

Anonymous said...

Big whoop. They hired contractors to fix an obvious problem that was ignored by incompetent people. Where is the video about fixing the billing system and collecting the money due?

Anonymous said...

LOLOL @ the mayor trying to look like he's part of the solution. The city has been aware of this leak since 2016 - you could have fixed this years ago before the leak cost $2.5 million to repair. Once again the mayor trying to stick his face in the positive press while denying any accountability the rest of the time. It's just comical at this point. I think even Ted sees through it finally.

Anonymous said...

Celebrating basic operational skills with a promo video is beyond sad.

Much like his useless pressers, ALL the other cities just do the work.

Chuckie and his ilk are the only ones that need bow ties and balloon releases to celebrate the demonstration of minimal operational competence. That he technically had nothing to do with.

But I do know this is a huge accomplishment for them.

Anonymous said...

There are people who make things happen, those that watch things happen and those that have no clue about what happened- The Mair is in the last category!

Anonymous said...

Sounds like Melissa Faith Payne narrating.

Anonymous said...

Free the equitable water.

Anonymous said...

Homer Simpson: "If it's brown drink it down!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWHoMyn0fXY

Anonymous said...

That video was made the day the judge and feds and state toured the plant and Ted showed them the leak. Not actirs ir construction workers - or even fake ones. Real folks on a real day, and they all had to wear hard hats and vests because it was a construction area.

Anonymous said...

@1:21 You're spot on. But you omitted the chisel beehive beardo of a wannbe mayor always turning most every sentence into a question by ending it with the word "right"! Every time I hear him say that, I say "no, you're f'ing wrong and a liar!"

Anonymous said...

WTF 2:40? Whats with all the "Boomer Bashing"? I'd wager a bet that your folks or grandparents are "Boomers".

Maybe your Daddy should have rolled of and shot you against the wall. If it wasn't for them your arrogant ass wouldn't be be here commenting.

Your arrogance offends me and most others here.

Kingfish, I'll buy your lunch if you post this.

Anonymous said...

8:45 - Where you gonna find a drive-through that sells crow?

Bill Dees said...

@12:07. I's simple math that a first grader could do. 12 MGD with 5 MGD spilling onto the ground = 7 MGD needed through the pipe.

Anonymous said...

Big mucks in snow-white hard hats to complement their neckties, cut shots of their determined faces, nodding affirmatively in slow motion. This, Jacksonians, is how to get done the business of Jackson, The City With So Little Water.

Anonymous said...

7:35. Yeah I can do math! 5MGD is 3,472 gallons per minute equivalent to 5 fire hydrants at 700 gpm. I'm here to say that leak wasn't that big!!!

Anonymous said...

The 2nd narrator's "upspeak" is driving me nuts, or more nuts as perhaps the case might be.

Anonymous said...

Chuck on the news today "we are going to talk about solutions to all of Jacksons problems."

Because clearly, all that city needs is more "talk".
And we all know that is literally the only thing that Chuck has to offer.

Anonymous said...

The pipes underground has lead. Those pipes need to be replaced first all. They are old and rusted which caused lead drinking water that is disbursed all over Jackson.

Anonymous said...

11:28– that is comedy gold.


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