Wednesday, July 8, 2009
News Boil water advisory in North Atlanta lifted
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:42 PM
Rich people, mall shoppers, and squatters in empty buildings are free to drink water that floweth from the tap. The Atlanta Department of Watershed says it's fixed the problem and the water's safe to drink.
Here's what the department says caused yesterday's advisory, the first Atlanta's experienced in 21 months:
Yesterday's incident resulted from a battery failure. According to Georgia Power, the initial incident started with a tree falling on one of Georgia Power’s 115,000 volt electrical lines, resulting in electrical power loss at the Northside Pump Station. When utility power was lost from Georgia Power, the emergency generator started as designed. However, when the control system attempted to close the switchgear circuit breaker to utilize the generator power, the battery failed and the Pump Station was not able to switch over to the emergency generator power.
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