Water line break prompts boil water advisory in NC town; Officials urge customers to conserve water
Water line break prompts boil water advisory in Burnsville; Officials urge customers to conserve water
*** major ice storm coming in on cue. We’re talking about late this evening ice spreading in from the west, and what’s gonna happen here is we have cold air that’s going to ramp up. So as you go to bed tonight, there’s not much concern, but when you wake up tomorrow, it’s gonna look like *** completely different landscape. Throughout the night, 2 a.m. we have about *** quarter of an inch of ice glazed over everything. By 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, the cold air is locked in. We’re in the twenties. And as we go into the day on Sunday, you’re saying, OK, it can stop now, right? Well, unfortunately, we still have 12 hours to go of this ice storm. It’s gonna be moderate to heavy freezing rain. Looks like it’s raining, but it’s coating everything with ice. Now in the mountains where you’re less influenced by this cold northeast wind banking up against the mountain, you will change over to some rain west of Asheville, but I think Ashe. Nashville, Hendersonville, Transylvania County, eastbound is gonna be in the thick of it through the ice. Now this is gonna be *** long duration event. We’re, we’re trying to say stop at 2:30. We have *** half an inch of ice. Now notice where the persistent heavy rain is falling at this point, I should say freezing rain along I-85. This is the area I’m most concerned gets close to 1 inch of ice. And as we go deeper into the evening here. It’s 5 o’clock. Notice how across the upstate right here, holding on to ice the entire time. It’s this area that may actually hear thunder ice. Can you believe it? We’ve heard of thunder snow before, right? Well, the above our heads are such energy that this will actually have *** potential to give us lightning during this event. Here we are, 5 o’clock, the last batch pushing out and you saw there, we remained ice the entire time across the upstate. Then it turns windy when the cold air rushes in Sunday night into Monday. The wind gusts get up to 40 MPH across the area. So when it’s all said and done, we’ve got almost 1 inch of ice in the northern part of the upstate, south of I-5, *** half an inch to 3/4 of an inch of ice. And for the mountains, especially those north and east facing slopes of the mountains, uh, right in here, that’s where we’re talking about could have some significant icing as well, over 1 inch in some locations. And then comes the wind and then comes the cold, folks, *** long duration event. We’ll walk you through it every step of the way here.
Water line break prompts boil water advisory in Burnsville; Officials urge customers to conserve water
A boil water advisory is in effect in Burnsville, North Carolina, after a water line break on West Main Street.On Saturday morning, town officials said a water line break occurred at 410 West Main Street.Water consumers from Swiss Avenue to Robertson Street reported experiencing periods of low pressure and outages in the distribution system.According to officials, periods of low or no pressure in the distribution system increase the potential for back siphonage and introduction of bacteria into the water system.The Division of Water Resources issued a boil water advisory out of an abundance of caution. Consumers in Burnsville should boil all water used for human consumption (including drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes and food preparation) or use bottled water.Vigorous boiling for one minute should kill any disease-causing organisms that may be present in the water. Officials strongly urge water consumers to conserve water whenever possible. The advisory will remain in effect until further notice.No other details have been released.
A boil water advisory is in effect in Burnsville, North Carolina, after a water line break on West Main Street.
On Saturday morning, town officials said a water line break occurred at 410 West Main Street.
Water consumers from Swiss Avenue to Robertson Street reported experiencing periods of low pressure and outages in the distribution system.
According to officials, periods of low or no pressure in the distribution system increase the potential for back siphonage and introduction of bacteria into the water system.
The Division of Water Resources issued a boil water advisory out of an abundance of caution. Consumers in Burnsville should boil all water used for human consumption (including drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes and food preparation) or use bottled water.
Vigorous boiling for one minute should kill any disease-causing organisms that may be present in the water.
Officials strongly urge water consumers to conserve water whenever possible. The advisory will remain in effect until further notice.
No other details have been released.