Boil water advisory in North Atlanta lifted
July 8, 2009 at 2:42 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsTennis moms, mall shoppers, and squatters in empty buildings have been given the OK from the Atlanta Department of Watershed to drink water from the tap.
Here’s what the department says caused yesterday’s advisory, the first Atlanta’s experienced in 21 months:
Yesterday’s incident resulted from a battery failure. According to Georgia Power, the initial incident started with a tree falling on one of Georgia Power’s 115,000 volt electrical lines, resulting in electrical power loss at the Northside Pump Station. When utility power was lost from Georgia Power, the emergency generator started as designed. However, when the control system attempted to close the switchgear circuit breaker to utilize the generator power, the battery failed and the Pump Station was not able to switch over to the emergency generator power.
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