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MUD 12 Water Outage

Posted by Carrie on 7/20/2022, 8:31 pm

The following is from the Pres. of MUD 12 explaining the repair on Ling. At approx. 8:20 p.m. 07/20/22 the completion was expected to take about 2 hours.

Eric Moeller
Author

The design of the cities water system was designed back in the late 70s for a weekend community and lacks a lot of the features that would be put in a new system to be able to isolate certain areas.
The location of this fire hydrant is right next to the MUD plant and hooked on the main.
Normally all fire hydrants have a isolation valve before them but this one didn’t for way ever reason.
When the hydrant was hit because of its close proximity to the main, caused the main from the plant to fracture.
The system is not looped. It comes out of the plant and goes down Neptune both ways.
We recently did a valve audit and that hydrant doesn’t have a valve on it.
Adding a isolation manifold to that junction along with several other key points is on the list of options for the next bond election we are looking at.

Re: MUD 12 Water Outage

Posted by Chuck on 7/22/2022, 4:10 pm, in reply to "MUD 12 Water Outage"

Ooops, it looks like I should have read the most recent comments about the MUD #12 water supply interruption before writing my comments of about 30 minutes ago on the earlier posting. Isolation valves are on the way I'm sure.
I echo the comments regarding Carrie and her doing so well communicating the information she has available to her. Thanks, Carrie!! Keep up the good work.

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Posted by Bob on 7/22/2022, 8:00 am, in reply to "MUD 12 Water Outage"

I want to thank you Carrie for all the updates you provide for the BV and OB resident's. Your quick updates on any issues in our area regarding Mud 12 or I45 issues is greatly appreciated.
Thank you Mud 12 for resolving the water outage as quickly as possible.

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Posted by Tripleheart on 7/22/2022, 7:36 am, in reply to "MUD 12 Water Outage"

Okay, so the system was designed without "isolation valves" in the late 70's. The late 70's were almost 50 years ago. So, why wait so many years to improve the system. Move faster! And, while you're at it, improve the NOTIFICATION OF INCIDENTS. I personally called MUD #12 office thirty minutes after noticing we had NO WATER. I was told of the issue then. And, I have not received a boil water notice. Poor business practices.

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Posted by Ken on 7/21/2022, 9:50 pm, in reply to "MUD 12 Water Outage"

A Bond ? That was not needed a few years ago…. Lolololololol

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Posted by Tripleheart on 7/22/2022, 7:25 am, in reply to "Re: MUD 12 Water Outage"

Really need improvement in the MUD #12 system. Have not yet received a "boil water" notice. Really NEED ISOLATION VALVES installed so that when there is a problem, the entire system is NOT affected. Two weeks in a row for water outage. Things happen and isolation valves should have been installed originally.

Next bond election?

Posted by Mac on 7/21/2022, 1:06 pm, in reply to "MUD 12 Water Outage"

Why would there be another bond election when the money from the previous bonds have not been spent and if they have been spent why does the WETP smell as bad now as it ever has? Are pouring money into a black hole?

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Posted by Hardee on 7/21/2022, 12:05 am, in reply to "MUD 12 Water Outage"

The incident that caused this chaos across our community was apparently a vehicle running in to a hydrant, correct?

In that situation it would be proper that the insurance company of the vehicle and driver have culpability. Surely the authorities (public servants) will inform those citizens that have been severely inconvenienced of the actions their bureaucratic representatives are executing/taking to get restitution/compensation and the also the expense, right.

FYI - to bring a 8 quart pot of water to a 212 boiing temperature over an open gas burner in and air conditioning environment takes approximately 35 minutes. Boiling water for purification is not recommended in a microwave.

Re: MUD 12 Water Outage

Posted by Carrie on 7/21/2022, 6:57 am, in reply to "Re: MUD 12 Water Outage"

The driver did stay on scene, Chief issued the necessary paperwork and the driver did present the proper documentation so that MUD 12 will be billing the liability insurance company for the repairs. The community suffered disruptions and inconveniences from the outage but we will not be paying for the repairs. The driver did not suffer any known injuries.

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Posted by Tommy on 7/21/2022, 7:16 am, in reply to "Re: MUD 12 Water Outage"

What about lost revenue for the restaurants and lost pay for their employees ?

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Posted by Rocky on 7/21/2022, 7:25 am, in reply to "Re: MUD 12 Water Outage"

wtf was he doing to run over the hydrant? texting?

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