A boil water advisory remains in effect until further notice for customers living in the western end of Milledgeville and those who receive water services from the city.
Before then, though, city officials began being informed of water outages in various areas in the western portion the county, as residents telephone the Milledgeville Police Department to report they didn’t have any water.
City Manager Barry Jarrett said the areas effected by the break were residents who live in areas of Allenwood subdivision, Magnolia Apartments, Georgia College’s West Campus, and residences along Ga. Highway 49.
Jarrett was attending a city council work session about stormwater management when he received the news of the main break.
Less than three hours after the water main was discovered, city waterworks crews had made repairs, according to Kevin Veal, who serves as the city’s water and sewer maintenance superintendent.
“It was pretty easy to find and relatively easy to fix,” Veal said of the broken PVC waterline.
Veal said he was not able to determine what caused the water main break.
“The line has sustained the same pressure that it has for years right here.” Felicia Cummings, the city’s public information officer, said Tuesday that local waterworks officials still were in the process of pulling samples from the city’s water supply for testing purposes.
Cummings indicated it would take 24 hours for those water samples to undergo proper testing.
Officials with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division are required to notify city officials that the water is safe for the public’s consumption before the boil water advisory can be lifted.