Congress is investigating the crisis that left 150,000 people in Mississippi’s capital city without running water for several days in late summer.
Clouds are reflected off the City of Jackson's O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Facility's sedimentation basins in Ridgeland, Miss., Friday, Sept. 2, 2022. Jackson's water system partially failed following flooding and heavy rainfall that exacerbated longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants. – Congress is investigating the crisis that left 150,000 people in Mississippi's capital city without running water for several days in late summer, according to aReps.
Running water was restored within days, and a boil-water notice was lifted in mid-September, but the letter to Reeves says “water plant infrastructure in the city remains precarious, and risks to Jackson’s residents persist.” According to the letter, Oversight Committee staff learned in a briefing with Jackson officials that the state attempted to limit funding to Jackson for its water system. The state allegedly planned to “bar communities of more than 4,000 people from competing for additional funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law,” the letter says.that Reeves had a hand in delaying funds for water system repairs in Jackson and claimed to have blocked funds.
Failure by city and state officials to provide Jackson residents with a reliable water system reflects, population change and decaying infrastructure. It has also fueled a political battle between GOP state lawmakers and Democratic city officials. The rancor ensued even though MEMA wrote that it requested a private contractor “in unified command with the City of Jackson.”
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