Electrical Fire at O.B. Curtis Leaves Jackson Without Safe Water For Weekend
Jackson residents are without clean water yet again, as an early-morning electrical fire at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant forced the plant to shut down, depressurizing the city’s transmission system just ahead of the weekend.
Just before 9 a.m., the City of Jackson issued a boil-water notice for all surface connections, citing “an electrical issue which caused a small fire in one of the major plant components.” Notably, the boil-water notice mentioned that “(O.B. Curtis) has been experiencing issues with the power feed to the plant.”
Ridgeland and Jackson Fire Departments arrived to put out the blaze, after the plant shut down to isolate the flames and protect the rest of the equipment.
Shortly after noon, technicians at the plant successfully isolated the electrical issue that generated the fire, allowing O.B. Curtis to again pump water into the city’s transmission lines, avoiding the long outage during February’s winter storms that caused a month of countless water main breaks.
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