Autoplay:Play Video0:00 0:00: 0%: 0%LIVE -0:00 CENTERVILLE, Tenn. – Hickman County residents could likely go without clean water for the next three days as the town tries to unclog its water system.
According to Public Works Director Danny Hudgins, water backed up from the Duck River has clogged grates allowing water into the Centerville water treatment plant.
Hudgins said he hopes people understand they’re working day and night to fix the problem.
"Especially when it floods like this backs up, that causes Swan Creek not to run as good," he said.
Until then, residents in the county with running water are advised to boil their water as a precaution.
Those without running water can go to the Centerville Maintenance Department at 128 North Central Avenue in Centerville to get cases of bottled water.
Residents in the county reported local grocery stores are picked clean of water.
"They’re giving some away here which is very nice of them.
So, no bathing."
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CENTERVILLE, Tenn. – People in one Hickman County town have been asked to boil their water before use until further notice.
Due to a water outage, water distributed to Centerville Water Systems customers may be contaminated.
Residents have been told they need to strain the water through a clean cloth to remove any sediment.
The water should then be heated to a “vigorous boil” for one minute to ensure disinfection.
This should be done for water used for drinking or food preparation.
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CENTERVILLE, Tenn. – People in one Hickman County town have been asked to boil their water before use until further notice.
Due to a water outage, water distributed to Centerville Water Systems customers may be contaminated.
Residents have been told they need to strain the water through a clean cloth to remove any sediment.
The water should then be heated to a “vigorous boil” for one minute to ensure disinfection.
This should be done for water used for drinking or food preparation.

CENTERVILLE, Tenn. — A boil water advisory is issued for customers of the Centerville Water System until further notice.
Due to a water outage, officials suspect water may be contaminated.
Customers are asked to take the following steps: Prior to boiling, the water should be strained through a clean cloth to remove any sediment or floating material.
The water should then be heated to a vigorous boil, and the rolling boil should be maintained for one minute to insure disinfection.

CENTERVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Centerville Mayor Gary Jacobs has alerted citizens to boil water used for drinking and cooking until further notice Sunday.
The mayor says that due to a water outage, they have reason to suspect that the water distributed to the customers of the Centerville Water System may be contaminated.
As a precaution, customers should take the following steps: 1.
Prior to boiling, the water should be strained through a clean cloth to remove any sediment or floating material.
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Water should then be heated to a vigorous boil, and the rolling boil should be maintained for at least one minute to ensure disinfection.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Toxins have seeped into the ground near the University of Memphis, but the Environmental Protection Agency and Memphis Light Gas and Water both claim the drinking water has not been affected. Federal and Tennessee agencies are holding meetings to update the public on the superfund site. The former dry cleaner site has five testing wells driven into the soil to gauge the flow of the toxins in the soil and if it seeped into the ground water below. Trending stories: The EPA collected data beginning July…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Toxins have seeped into the ground near the University of Memphis, but the Environmental Protection Agency and Memphis Light Gas and Water both claim the drinking water has not been affected.
Federal and Tennessee agencies are holding meetings to update the public on the superfund site.
The former dry cleaner site has five testing wells driven into the soil to gauge the flow of the toxins in the soil and if it seeped into the ground water below.
Trending stories: The EPA collected data beginning July and told us the toxins in the superfund site have contaminated the top of ground water.
Ken Mallary of the EPA told FOX13, "We will continue to investigate the size of the ground water and we think in a couple of years to determine the size of the ground plum of ground water contamination.
FOX13 asked Ken Mallary if the toxins have spread to the aquifer where we get our drinking water.
Mallary told MLGW tests show the water is safe.
"There is no PCE contamination in any of these wells which is good news," said Mallary.
"Certainly we will continue to work with MLGW to ensure the local drinking water is safe," said Mallary.
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ATWOOD, Tenn. — A message to residents in the Atwood area.
Due to a water main leak, pressure in some areas of the Atwood water system may have dropped below state mandated levels.
As a result, officials are issuing a precautionary boil water notice.
Officials say customers should take a few steps before using the water for drinking or food preparation.
Prior to boiling water it should be strained through a clean cloth, and the water should be brought to a boil for at least one minute.
While no contaminants are known to have entered the water supply, the possibility does exist due to the low pressures.
Officials say they will make an announcement when the problem has been fixed.

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.