Entire City of Houston placed under boil water notice after system outage - KTRK-TV

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A boil h2o announcement has been placed for the City of Houston's Main Water System.

The video supra is from a erstwhile report.

Earlier connected Sunday, the h2o unit dropped beneath the city's required minimum of 20 PSI owed to a powerfulness outage astatine the East Water Purification Plant, according to the Texas Commission connected Environmental Quality.

The metropolis monitored the h2o unit passim the full day. Shortly aft the outage, each h2o was restored to customers.

For those who are experiencing debased unit tin interaction the City of Houston Service astatine 311.

As a effect of the notice, the nationalist is being advised:

Do not portion h2o without boiling it first

Bring each h2o to a boil for astatine slightest 2 minutes and fto it chill disconnected earlier using.

Those who bash not person entree to powerfulness to boil are advised to usage bottled water.

Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management and the Texas Commission connected Environmental Quality to deploy indispensable resources to enactment the metropolis of Houston aft it announced a boil h2o announcement pursuing the nonaccomplishment of section powerfulness to 3 h2o attraction plants.

"The State of Texas is instantly responding and deploying enactment to Houston arsenic they enactment to get a harmless proviso of h2o backmost online," said Governor Abbott. "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."

To spot if you are successful the impacted area, click here.

If you person immoderate questions concerning the matter, you tin interaction 311 oregon email waterquality@houstontx.gov.

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