Austin Water is still hoping to wrap this boil water notice up by the weekend.
He says the raw turbidity — or clarity — of the Colorado River improved again overnight.
But something else happened Tuesday that was not good.
Meszaros says it’s something they were thinking could happen when they issued the precautionary notice.
"And sure enough, two days later, day and a half later, we did have a turbidity excursion at our Ullrich Treatment plant where we went over the regulatory standard for turbidity so that worked in the sense that we wanted that boil water notice in place before that happened to be as protective as possible.
He spoke with Fox 7 Austin by phone on Wednesday about Austin’s boil water notice and the vulnerability the water utility has being dependent on the a single-source of water…the Colorado River.
Knowing ahead of time that there was going to be a flood with turbid water coming down the river, what did we do to shore up storage?"
Schuster said.
As for the city’s hope to end the boil water notice by the weekend, Schuster thinks it is do-able.
Bottom line — keep boiling.