Boil water notice issued for City of Houston's main water system - KHOU.com

HOUSTON — A boil h2o announcement has been issued for the City of Houston's main h2o system.

Houston Public Works issued the announcement connected Sunday. City officials said they expect it to beryllium lifted connected Tuesday. The metropolis said it volition notify customers erstwhile the h2o is harmless to devour without boiling.

The boil h2o announcement is successful effect for the full metropolis arsenic good arsenic for West University residents who unrecorded connected Law Street.

The metropolis said the h2o unit astatine the East Water Purification Plant (2342 Federal Road) dropped beneath the state's required minimum of 20 psi during a powerfulness outage connected Sunday astatine 10:30 a.m.

As a effect of the boil h2o notice, the nationalist is advised to:

Those who don't person the quality to boil h2o are being advised to usage bottled h2o for consumption. Children, seniors and radical with weakened immune systems are peculiarly susceptible to harmful bacteria that could beryllium successful the water.

Houston Water Director Yvonne Williams Forrest spoke to KHOU 11 News astir the notice.

Upon proceeding astir the boil h2o notice, Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management and the Texas Commission connected Environmental Quality to help.

"The State of Texas is instantly responding and deploying enactment to Houston arsenic they enactment to get a harmless proviso of h2o backmost online," Abbott said. "We person been successful interaction with Mayor Turner to connection the afloat enactment of the state, and we're presently moving to fulfill the city's petition for assistance with accelerated turnaround of h2o illustration results. I convey TDEM and TCEQ for swiftly responding to assistance code this issue. We impulse those that the boil h2o announcement affects to proceed heeding the guidance of section officials and instrumentality capable precautions erstwhile boiling and utilizing water. Together, we volition guarantee our chap Texans are supported portion the city's h2o proviso returns."

If you person questions, you tin telephone 311 oregon email waterquality@houstontx.gov.