Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 GROVETOWN, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) — The City of Grovetown’s Water Department will be working on Katherine Street Tuesday from 8am to 4pm.
Officials say those living in the area that have experienced water outages or low water pressure are advised to boil all water prior to drinking, cooking or preparing food.
The city says it is being pro-active in issuing this notice.
They say the water system or quality of water has NOT been comprised.
They are strictly taking precaution and following regulations.
According to a statement from the city, water service will be restored no later than the end of the day and they hope they can lift the boil water advisory before the end of the day, Wednesday, January 31st.

MARIETTA, Ohio (WTAP) – A boil-water advisory is in effect for approximately 60 to 70 Marietta water customers because of emergency repairs to a water line.
The advisory is for customers in the 100 block of East Spring Street, 200 block of West Spring Street and Emerald Street.
Customers in adjacent areas could also be affected, so officials say if you experience a loss of service you are included in the advisory.
Officials say if you experience a loss of service or reduced water pressure, you should “rapid boil” any drinking water for two minutes once service is restored.
Call 740-374-6864 for more information.

Allow the water to boil up to three minutes before turning off the heat source.
Allow the water to cool before putting it in a storage container.
The water system just over the state line in McCaysville, the supplier of Copperhill’s water, underwent work on its filtration system in late December, impacting service to all water utility customers who get their water from the McCaysville Water Utility.
A notice was posted on Fannin County, Ga.’s Emergency Management Agency website Friday telling McCaysville Water System customers to boil their water before using it.
"Due to loss of pressure in the water system and low tank levels, [customers] of the McCaysville Water System are under a boil advisory until further notice.
The advisory is in effect "until further notice," but McCaysville Mayor Thomas Seabolt said the work on the filtration system "is in the final stages," and the boil notice could be lifted by Wednesday if samples test as good and work on some leaks goes as planned.
Hopefully if they pass, which they should, we’ll be off of this boil notice by Wednesday," Seabolt said on Monday.
"They’ve been working 10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week," Seabolt said of repair crews.
The two towns are no strangers to water supply problems.
Copperhill, population about 350, and McCaysville, population a little more than 1,000, lie within the Ocoee River watershed on the mountainous eastern fringes of Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest and Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest.

McCAYSVILLE, Ga. – A boil advisory remains in effect for McCaysville water customers Thursday, Jan. 11.
The city has been under the advisory since Friday, and the latest advisory is the city’s third boil advisory for its water customers since the beginning of October 2017.
The advisory stems from low tank levels at the city’s water plant, which occurred largely because of broken water mains during the recent cold weather experienced across the region over the past two weeks, according to McCaysville City Councilman and Water Commissioner Richard Wagner.
Wagner was unable to give timetable for when the boil advisory is expected to be lifted and added that tank levels at the water plant continue to be low.
“(City water crews) have worked hard (to repair the broken mains) and put in a lot of long hours, and I am very proud of them,” Wagner stated of the recent water system repair work throughout the city.
Consequently, the city of Copperhill, Tennessee, which receives its water from the McCaysville water system, also issued a boil advisory for its customers Saturday, Jan.6, which remains in effect for its customers, according to City Clerk Amber Brooks.
Currently, Copperhill is using fire engines and tankers to transfer water from Copper Basin Utility District hydrants in nearby Ducktown, Tennessee, in an effort to keep its own water tank full, Brooks stated.
For Copperhill, this is also its third boil advisory since October.
Before boil advisories can be lifted, a series of bacteriological testing must be conducted to ensure the safety of water and the water providers must receive clearance from the state.

UPDATE: Copperhill residents are under a Boil Water Advisory for the third time since October.
When something goes wrong at the water plant in McCaysville, the city of Copperhill is not able to get water.
READ MORE | UPDATE: Copperhill’s water woes continue So now, the city is in the process of switching its water supplier to Copper Basin Utilities in order to better serve its customers because the cost of water problems is drowning the city.
Her family now keeps a supply of water bottles in the house because she said the water crisis is no longer a temporary problem but seems like a way of life.
This is the third time residents have been without water in the last eight months.
Copperhill Mayor, Kathy Stewart, says they aren’t the only ones without water; the city of McCaysville is as well.
were making several trips from a fire hydrant near Copper Basin High School to haul water.
It’s really hard and there’s no water anywhere," said Copperhill resident, Amber Martin.
Martin says it takes one gallon of water to flush her toilet once.
While residents try to cope with what they have, Stewart says they’re working on a permanent solution.

A boil water advisory is in place until further notice for some areas of East Macon, due to a water main break.
Also, from Emery Highway south on Ocmulgee East Blvd. Riggins Mill Road and Ocmulgee East Blvd to county line on Riggins Mill Road. The boil water advisory includes all side streets within this area.
She says there are also some water outages.
The affected area is Emory Highway & Commerce to Emory Highway and Ocmulgee East Blvd., up Riggins Mill Road to Ruark Road; South Ocmulgee East Blvd. to Herbert Smart Airport Drive.
Customers in the outage map area may be without service for a day or two, but updated information will be provided throughout the day today as soon as more information is available from the Macon Water Authority.
Rojas says crews are working overtime to restore water to customers in the affected areas.

A boil advisory was issued early Friday after a 12-inch water main break in East Macon.
The perimeter of the boil advisory includes south of Highway 129 (to the northwest) and Joy Cliff Road (to the northeast), and north of Ga. 80 and Jeffersonville Road, according to a news release.
Also included is the area south of Riggins Mill Road and north of Interstate 16/Ga. Those within the impacted areas may experience low pressure or no water service.
Those who are now without any water can expect to have their service restored within one to two days, which means some customers could be without water until Sunday, said Tony Rojas, president and executive director of the Macon Water Authority.
The number of customers without water was not immediately available, with the water authority working on maps that will show those under the boil advisory as well as those without water service, Rojas said.
The industrial park was not impacted, he said.
Water was shut off at the site of the water main break Thursday night, with crews working overtime to restore water service as soon as possible, the release said.
After a 24-hour period of testing and monitoring the water quality, the water authority will conduct a final bacteria test to confirm water in the impacted areas of the system is safe to drink again, the release said.

Georgia county fined for water pollution.
When a city, county or municipality violates those acts, it could face sanctions for water pollution.
The county was sanctioned for the spills and for failing to report all of the spills that occurred between the years of 2012 and 2016.
Apparently, officials in DeKalb County just discovered the issue last year.
An investigation into the matter resulted in an employee being terminated.
The parties were able to come to what was described as an "amicable resolution" to the problem.
Unfortunately, water pollution issues happen far too often.
Correcting the problem is only part of the solution.
When cities, counties and municipalities find themselves at odds with both federal and state officials, it may be a good idea to have a legal ally as an advocate.
Source: U.S. News & World Report, "DeKalb Fined $294,000 for Sewage Spills", June 23, 2017

Across the region fields are green and hay, straw, corn, wheat, rye and other crops have rebounded considerably from 2016’s historic drought.
Even in April, parts of Northeast Georgia were still the driest areas in the U.S. "It was the driest year that I can remember in my 80 years," beef farmer Benny Cross said last week, standing ankle-deep in hay cut to replenish supplies he used up in 2016.
The Cross family usually keeps an extra barn full of hay for emergencies, but they used it up last year rather than buy hay like most other beef farmers did.
"We’ve been trying to get up some hay but it’s been raining the afternoons for the last week, week-and-a-half," said Cross.
Above normal precipitation — 1 to 5 inches — fell in Alabama, "resulting in drought improvement in all areas of the state," the report stated.
About a third of the hay was harvested before the rain."
"This time last year we were already dry," Tommy Cross said.
The Crosses got only two cuttings of hay in 2016 and three-quarters of the harvest came with the first cut.
However, Scoggins’ soybean crop — a crop planted after the rye grass is harvested for straw — only produced about a 20 percent yield last year from three plantings, he said.
The drought was a lesson for farmers.

Americus Elementary School students are finishing up the school year with several projects which benefit the greater good.
“They have worked very hard to complete their projects.” Books for babies Addison Landgren, Lilly Parks, Addisyn Hinrichs and Abbie Sull led the Books for Babies project.
“We wanted everyone to have a book of their own,” Parks said.
“It helps them to be ready for school.” Slowing food waste Landon Dody, Cooper Hamlin, Matthew Rouse, Logan Schlimme, Jonathon Marcotte and Gunner Stone focused their project on reducing food waste at Americus Elementary Schools.
“You can put a lot of discarded food in the composters,” Marcotte said.
The students ended up raising $455.12 and presented the money to Christian and his mom, Sarah Risner, during a special assembly at the school.
During the trip the students picked up trash and learned about how to protect fresh water.
Their project was all about saving the trees.
“We have lots of suggestions for how to save the trees,” Lee said.
With each group picking a topic they were passionate about, the work didn’t seem all the difficult “We really wanted to do this so it wasn’t that hard,” Anstey said.