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December 28, 2009 |
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It’s not exactly the kind of City news we like to announce during the holidays but after last month’s water line break on SR 43 at Crain Avenue that left a bunch of neighborhoods and the High School out of water service, Gene Roberts has planned to take the water system off-line on Monday, December 28th to repair a valve that when fixed should ensure that those residents have more water service redundancy which means if there is a future break in the line out on SR 43 most of those folks shouldn’t lose service.
EMAIL FROM GENE ROBERTS, PUBLIC SERVICE DIRECTOR
Dave,
Just some background information regarding the planned water shut down. The Central maintenance Division identified a defective valve during their investigation of the N. Mantua Street 12-inch water main break which resulted in the extended water outage in the north central portion of the City on Nov. 23. They identified that the valve stem was broken at Needham Ave. and N. Mantua which would have back fed the majority of the area that was included in the outage and resulting boil alert issued on Nov. 24.
Jack Hogue advised that all pre-work that can be done has been done and if all goes per plan the water crew will shut down the 12-inch water main and install a new valve with a current estimated down time of approximately 3-hours (ie water off at 2:00 am and return of service around 5:00 am). By completing this work the next incident that requires water shut down (panned or emergency) for the north central portion of the City including N. Mantua from Carthage north, the High School, Grade School, River Bend and Davey Tree should not be impact water service.
The complete valve replacement will require a depressurization of the water main and depending on outage time and impacted area may require an additional boil alert, Jack will be making that call on Monday Dec. 28.
I’m sure we will get some questions about why so many water outages but this one is being done strictly as preventative maintenance and hopefully will have a minimum impact on customers resulting in better delivery of service as the bridge project continues.
Thanks
Gene
***NOTICE***
INTERRUPTION OF WATER SERVICE
DUE TO THE NEED FOR A WATER VALVE REPLACEMENT, IT IS NECESSARY TO SHUT OFF THE WATER SERVICE AFFECTING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
North Mantua Street
(Between Needham Avenue and Northern City Limits)
Standing Rock Avenue
River Bend Subdivision
(all streets located in River Bend East and River Bend West)
AFFECTED AREA
WE ANTICIPATE THE SHUT OFF TO BEGIN AT APPROXIMATELY
2:00 A.M. on MONDAY, DECEMBER 28TH, 2009 WITH SERVICE BEING RESTORED WITHIN APPROXIMATELY 6 to 8 HOURS.
PLEASE DRAW AND SAVE ANY WATER YOU MAY NEED FOR THIS SHORT WATER OUTAGE BEFORE 2:00AM IN THE MORNING.
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION DURING THIS SCHEDULED WATER OUTAGE
WE WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO RESTORE SERVICE AS PROMPTLY AS POSSIBLE.
THANK YOU,
EUGENE K. ROBERTS
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SERVICE