No contamination found after Atlanta spends more than a day under boil water advisory

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seek to previous 12… 6 seek to 10%, 20% … 60% Atlanta, GA (CBS46) The Atlanta watershed department says it did not find any contamination following Monday’s pressure problem at one of the city’s pump stations.
Kishia Powell is the commissioner of the department of watershed management.
As her department sent out confusing notifications, their website crashed, leaving residents confused and potentially at risk.
But didn’t feel she needed to speak directly to the tens of thousands of city residents dealing with the crisis.
But it allows us to ask probing questions while a situation is unfolding.
She says her staff handled it fine.
“So, during the crisis, you feel the public had all the information they needed,” asked the CBS46 Bulldog.
But residential customers and businesses alike were still asking questions late into the night.
CBS46 was told a safety system went off inadvertently.

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