Water boil order issued for more than 2 million in Houston
Source: AP
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HOUSTON (AP) More than 2 million people in the Houston area were under a boil order notice Monday after a power outage caused low pressure at a water purification plant, officials said.
The order means water must be boiled before its used for cooking, bathing or drinking. Multiple Houston area public and private schools, as well as some local colleges, were closed Monday as a result of the notice, while others made adjustments to provide affected campuses with bottled water and sanitizer. The warning was issued Sunday after a power outage at a water purification plant, the citys public works department said.
Testing of the water quality was underway, according to Houston officials.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said on Twitter that the city believes the water is safe but a boil order was required because water pressure dropped below the required minimum by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. He said water sampling would begin Monday morning, and the boil order could be lifted 24 hours after the city is notified the water is safe.
John Beezley, of Bonham, buys cases of water after learning that a boil water notice was issued for the entire city of Houston on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022, at Walmart on S. Post Oak Road in Houston. Beezley just arrived in town with his wife, who is undergoing treatment starting tomorrow at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where they are staying in a camping trailer. They turned on the television after settling in and saw that a boil water notice had been issued. Beezley decided to go out immediately fearing that by tomorrow people would be buying up all of the available water. (Mark Mulligan/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Traildogbob
(8,791 posts)Secede Secede Secede!!! Fuck you Dems, we own you. Yea, Walker resides here, but he smart like Perry, see the classes they share. I tell you wut, watch dis!!!! Give up your tax cash to bus Latinos and ERECT Abbott. Damn water, drink Lone Star. Houston
. You have a problem. Soon Good Dems, fed up, will be on those buses to leave that shit hole country.
twodogsbarking
(9,792 posts)IronLionZion
(45,512 posts)with no interest in paying to fix it.
Igel
(35,337 posts)It's purely local.
The notice was issued Sunday, hours after two transformers failed, causing power outages at the water plant, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a press conference Monday. There was no indication the water system had been contaminated.
That's from the OP.
"Two transformers went offline due to a ground trip," Turner told the assembled press. "A bad cell was found."
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-water-boil-notice-17615711.php
City's been (D) run for as long as I've lived in/near it.
The Houston muni water supply is a run by the city. https://www.houstonpublicworks.org/
I live just a few miles north of the city limits, in an unincorporated area. To my east is the airport, to my west part of Houston that stretches up the freeway in search of businesses to tax. Where I live isn't included in the boil order.
IronLionZion
(45,512 posts)Isn't their failing power grid a state issue?
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)It was a ground short in a transformer at the waterworks.
TeamProg
(6,201 posts)peoples' quality of life.