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SOMEBODY FLIPPING ONE FUCKING SWITCH WOULD HAVE KEPT AUSTIN IN WATER

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Just now, Samson's Wig said:

Sometimes?  Attention Whore is our official mascot.

Official Mascot. NSFW

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  • Lol. It’s gonna be hilarious when y’all all need Ivermectin to treat your parasitic infections. 

  • Some of y'all didn't grow up drinking water out of a green hose in the front yard during the summer months and it shows. 

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    I think we can all rest easily knowing that we’ll appoint a special commission to look into this, and after a couple of years they’ll release a report recommending a simple solution to our water treat

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6 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I thought that was just a whore whore?

i got you fam. this is a whore whore.

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Austin Water waited 12 hours before issuing boil water notice. (statesman.com)

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Austin Water waited 12 hours before issuing boil water notice. It's not clear why.
Ryan Autullo
Austin American-Statesman

Nearly 12 hours lapsed Saturday between the time Austin Water officials say they learned of an issue affecting the city's drinking water and the time they alerted customers in a citywide boil water notice.

It's unclear whether that response was unreasonably slow and, if so, whether it put anyone in danger through exposure to water with high levels of turbidity, or cloudiness. 

Those are among the questions the utility has not answered publicly as the boil water notice moves into the fourth — and probably final — day Tuesday.

On Monday evening, Austin Water responded to an inquiry from the American-Statesman sent earlier in the day but didn't directly explain the lag between detecting the problem and telling the public.

Lance Stacy picks up a case of water at the Kelly Reeves Athletic Complex in Williamson County on Monday. Austin Water issued a boil water notice Saturday night.


"They're a fair set of questions, and I've asked the same questions," City Council Member Alison Alter said.

Alter said she intends to bring forward a plan for an independent external audit to probe not only what happened in this instance but a pattern of issues at Austin Water.


The city's water department has issued three boil water alerts since late 2018. In addition, there was an incident in early 2019 in which the city's water supply was drinkable but smelled and tasted funny because of the presence of dead and decaying zebra mussels in some raw water intake pipes.

Alter's call for an independent audit generated support from four of her council colleagues, a sign that it has a good chance of getting approved when she brings it forward for a vote.


But Alter said she isn't willing to wait for the completion of that audit to learn more about why the city took most of the day Saturday before alerting customers to the problem. Alter, who represents District 10 in Northwest Austin, said she has asked City Manager Spencer Cronk that question and others and has requested that the answers be disseminated to the public through Austin Water's communications team.

"I share in the frustration that many in the public have expressed about the most recent boil water notice and the frequency of these events," Alter wrote in a message board post. "While I appreciate the efforts our staff are making to restore water and distribute assistance, our community expects and deserves better."

At a press conference Sunday, Austin Water Director Greg Meszaros said the issue resulted from human error and not a mechanical breakdown. When water in the system first tested high for turbidity, the operational staff should have reacted immediately but did not, he said.

Meszaros, the director since 2007, said the error had never happened before and is "not easy" to make.

"We have many controls in place," he said.

Asked if people might lose their jobs because of the error, Meszaros responded, "all actions are on the table."

More:Austin issues emergency boil water notice, expected to last 'a couple of days'

If all goes according to Austin Water's plan, the current boil water notice will be lifted by the end of the day Tuesday and residents will again be able to enjoy water straight from their taps. The utility was set to sample the quality of the water Monday, a day after the Ullrich Water Treatment Plant returned to normal production levels.

Meszaros said that at 8 a.m. Saturday he was notified of a turbidity spike at the Ullrich plant and responded by shutting down the plant. He said the affected water went out to the public for about 30 minutes and that it was due to a breakdown in oversight by the operating staff.

Per the state administrative code, Austin Water is required to notify the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality "as soon as possible to determine if there is a threat to public health and if a BWN (boil water notice) is necessary.”

Austin Water provided verbal notification about 2 p.m., according to TCEQ spokesman Gary Rasp. That was six hours after the high turbidity levels were discovered.

TCEQ requires that a boil water notice be issued as soon as possible, but in no case later than 24 hours after the condition occurs.

"They notified us well within the timeframe that our rules require," Rasp said.

The boil water notice went out a little after 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

In a Monday evening response to the American-Statesman's questions, an Austin Water spokesman said the boil water notice was issued preemptively — as a precaution — and that the utility is confident that water quality remained safe for all customers. The spokesman also confirmed that the Ullrich plant serves customers in South Austin.

The plant "was taken offline immediately and water production was increased at our other two plants," the spokesman said in a statement. "While the plant was offline, in coordination with TCEQ, we evaluated the system condition and it was determined that a boil water notice was required. Water disinfection parameters have remained consistent and within regulatory standards. With the boil water notice in place, operators were then able to begin restarting water treatment operations at Ullrich Water Treatment Plant."

Alter's audit proposal followed a plan from Council Members Paige Ellis and Natasha Harper-Madison to arrange a specially called council meeting to examine the issues. That request, made Sunday, was met with pushback as some council members thought it was too soon and that all of the answers might not be available.

Ellis and Harper-Madison are the only two council members up for reelection this year.

"It seems like the answers we need should be pretty straightforward, and I appreciate my colleagues offering their perspectives on the best path forward as well," Ellis said.


 

 

22 minutes ago, zman13 said:

It's not clear why.

I feel like there’s an Abbott and Costello routine in here involving clarity of the water and clarity of the response. 

3 hours ago, zman13 said:

Nearly 12 hours lapsed Saturday between the time Austin Water officials say they learned of an issue affecting the city's drinking water and the time they alerted customers in a citywide boil water notice.

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To be fair to the plant operators, the button to alert the media about a water boil notice is behind the same panel that has the emergency generator backup button.   They both were designed by Nakatomi Center security engineers, both take 12 hours to initiate, and nobody except Theo is trained on them.  And Theo’s toast.  

22 minutes ago, Lobo said:

To be fair to the plant operators, the button to alert the media about a water boil notice is behind the same panel that has the emergency generator backup button.   They both were designed by Nakatomi Center security engineers, both take 12 hours to initiate, and nobody except Theo is trained on them.  And Theo’s toast.  

You asked for miracles.  I give you the C...  O...  A...

6 hours ago, crash_davis said:

seriously, if a lot of mothefuckers do not get fired over this shit, i'm going to write a sternly worded letter or fly a banner. 

Let's be honest, no one's getting fired over this shit.

More like chewed out.  They've been chewed out before.

Let's be honest, no one's getting fired over this shit.

More like chewed out.  They've been chewed out before.

That’s a bingo!
3 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

It's piss.

Either staff really fucked up bad to get called out so quickly or management is trying to cover their ass

We will never know

32 minutes ago, Updawg said:

Either staff really fucked up bad to get called out so quickly or management is trying to cover their ass

We will never know

Hint:  it's always management's fault.

Woman at work said she is going through her bottled water for her dogs.

If eating their own shit hasn't killed them, the water should be fine. 

sooo............................when are these assholes supposed to give the greenlight? fucking incompetent fucksticks.

1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

sooo............................when are these assholes supposed to give the greenlight? fucking incompetent fucksticks.

Still not going to trust it until tomorrow.

5 hours ago, HenryJames said:

 

Go away, 'tratin

Still not going to trust it until tomorrow.

Yeah, I guess we get nothing tonight and like it

I like that the tech's computer terminal looks like what I thought a 2022 computer terminal would look like in 1982.  

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On 2/6/2022 at 8:12 PM, Steel Shank said:

Looks like the city is in dire need of a pipe-laying specialist. You know, a pro.

this was probably missed by most everyone on sunday night.

craftsmanship.

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by the way, the common definition of "evening" does not include 9pm.  it's no longer "this evening".

Live look at the current meeting discussing the status of the tests.

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This may be just risk aversion fatigue but I’ve been drinking the water without incident since the start of the notice.  If there are parasites hopefully they will help me hit my New Years resolution to lose five pounds.  

The TCEQ is like "fuck your results, you'll get them tomorrow before lunch."

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i want to know what fitlump has to say about this

she signed up for the free grift

buy the ticket, take the ride

This may be just risk aversion fatigue but I’ve been drinking the water without incident since the start of the notice.  If there are parasites hopefully they will help me hit my New Years resolution to lose five pounds.  

Shit. A good parasite should help you lose 50 easy

KVUE just said the boil water notice is over. Flush your cold water lines for 1-5 minutes and you're good to go.

Sure why not. Haven't heard or read any reports of people getting sick from drinking unboiled water during so...

just saw this thread. I’m in austin. are we supposed to be boiling water before we drink it?

1 minute ago, futureman said:

just saw this thread. I’m in austin. are we supposed to be boiling water before we drink it?

Only if you have a time machine. 

I don't know WTF happened at Ullrich, but if unclean water did enter the citywide distribution system, as was my understanding, how does me running my cold water taps for 1-5 minutes flush all that out? It seems like there could be a huge volume of potentially-tainted water still lingering in the system. Even if certain locations tested clean, how do we know whether those samples are representative of conditions along the whole system?

Or should I just be quiet and have faith that our municipal leaders and institutions have really fixed it?

 

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

Sure why not. Haven't heard or read any reports of people getting sick from drinking unboiled water during so...

Only 1-2% of Austin drinks out of the tap - the rest are drinking artisanal hand-made rain water that was bottled by virgins.  The 1913 batch is fucking expensive, but worth every penny.

Wait, I meant they are drinking art is anal water, which means they have the shits no matter what.

2 minutes ago, Paper_jam said:

I don't know WTF happened at Ullrich, but if unclean water did enter the citywide distribution system, as was my understanding, how does me running my cold water taps for 1-5 minutes flush all that out? It seems like there could be a huge volume of potentially-tainted water still lingering in the system. Even if certain locations tested clean, how do we know whether those samples are representative of conditions along the whole system?

Or should I just be quiet and have faith that our municipal leaders and institutions have really fixed it?

If they fixed it when they say they did (Sunday/Monday morning), that was 24+ hours of us running clean water through the system to get water to boil, take showers, water lawns, wash stuff, etc.

The 1-5 minute thing is for the folks who completely shut down the usage of water in their homes/businesses and they needed to flush out that bit of water in the home pipes.

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I am just disappointed I cannot turn over my health care and other key life  decisions to these folks!

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user taking a few days off for cr in dt

5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Everybody getting a text at 8am tomorrow.

 

So after everyone has already left for work

45 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Welcome back to modern civilization, Austin. 
 

 

And just like the last time I had tequila Steve............"AND THIS TIME, I MEAN IT!" 

What a corruptly incompetent asshat.  Just shut up, finish out your term, count your cash, and choke on a dick.

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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:

Welcome back to modern civilization, Austin. 
 

 

I have questions. 
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Yeah, no CR...I despise Adler and Austin Water more than most since I've been involved with the sausage making.  And I'm not necessarily supporting single-payer health care...but I don't really get the connect between a municipal water administrator and health care in the United States?  

I mean yeah, if the Austin Water director got shitcanned today and then got hired to run Texas Medicaid tomorrow, I'd be the loudest citizen.  But short of that, I don't get the connect.  

I have dire, dire concerns with the Affordable Care Act...but the whole "You want the DMV running your health care" thing never rang true for me.  Nobody wants a JuCo dropout clerk who can barely spell your last name for your license renewal administering anesthesia to you before major surgery.  Which is why...ya' know...we have 3700 barriers between those fucking idiots and your health care delivery.  

Back to Austin Water...I love that last year's 8 days with no water didn't trigger Adler...but this did.  I wonder why?  Yes, surly Lobo is on the case...

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