Atlanta officials say water repairs are done after 5 days of outages and service is being restored
City of Atlanta officials say workers finished repairs on a ruptured water main on Tuesday
ATLANTA — City of Atlanta officials say workers finished repairs on a ruptured water main on Tuesday and that water problems in the city are coming to an end after five days.
The city said Tuesday night that workers had placed new pipes after a leak that sent a gushing river into the streets of the city's Midtown neighborhood. Officials said water had been restored to a bar and a hotel immediately adjoining the leak and that they were gradually increasing pressure in the system.
They predicted normal pressure would return by Wednesday morning, although an order to boil water before drinking remained in place in downtown, Midtown and areas to the east.
“Making progress,” Mayor Andre Dickens told reporters at the site of the ruptured pipe. “(I’m) so ready for this to be over. So are the residents around here.”
By Monday afternoon, the area under the boil-water advisory was sharply reduced after pressure was restored in many areas following Saturday’s repair of the first mammoth leak, west of downtown.
Water was shut off Tuesday only in the blocks immediately surrounding that repair site. But some hotels, offices and residences in high-rise buildings across a broader area were still affected. Lower water pressure in the system means toilets wouldn't flush on higher floors and some air conditioning systems wouldn't operate normally.
Norfolk Southern Corp. partially closed its headquarters building about eight blocks from the repair site. The state of Georgia’s office complex downtown was still experiencing low pressure and discolored water, but Gerald Pilgrim, the deputy executive director of the Georgia Building Authority, said
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