A boil water notice has been lifted for the City of Houston, and the mayor says the water is safe to drink.
when a transformer failed at the East Water Purification Plant causing a backup transformer to kick on. Then that one failed, too."That was at 11 a.m. 16 of the 21 sites dropped below the emergency regulatory level of 20 PSI. Pressure rebounded above 20 PSI in less than two minutes at 14 of the 16 locations," Mayor Turner explained Monday. He said the other two sensors sat below emergency mandated levels for 30 minutes and full water pressure at 35 PSI was restored by 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Houston Public Works says residents should run cold-water faucets for at least one minute to flush their system, clean automatic ice makers by making and discarding several batches of ice, and run water softeners through a regeneration cycle.
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