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Pacific issues townwide precautionary boil advisory after 8-inch water main breaks; reservoirs drained overnight
Summary
An 8-inch water main burst before dawn Aug. 19, prompting Pacific officials to isolate the leak, issue a townwide precautionary boil advisory and take bacteriological samples. City crews repaired the line and expected lab results the following day.
An 8-inch water main near Graphic Packaging ruptured before dawn on Aug. 19, causing rapid reservoir drawdown and prompting the City of Pacific to issue a townwide precautionary boil advisory.
Public Works Commissioner Bergman told the Board of Aldermen the failure was detected by the city SCADA monitoring system at about 3:10 a.m. and “we lost approximately 665,000 gallons of water total.” He said Blackburn Reservoir briefly read zero on the telemetry (he said full is seven feet) and Oak Ridge Summit Reservoir fell to roughly 24 feet (full about 39.5 feet). Bergman said crews isolated the leak by about 5:30 a.m. and restored service to the affected…
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