Gwinnett County Puts Out Message On Water Safety

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA – Gwinnett water is safe for all uses, including drinking. The city of Atlanta mistakenly sent a boil water advisory phone call to some Gwinnett residents on Monday, Dec. 3. However, the boil water notice only affects city of Atlanta water customers; it does not affect Gwinnett County water customers.

Gwinnett County’s water system is not connected to the city of Atlanta system. Gwinnett County is not under a boil water advisory, and Gwinnett’s water is safe for all uses including drinking.

Hundreds of homes, businesses and schools were left without water on Monday, because of a low-pressure problem at one of Atlanta's pumping stations. Atlantans are under a boil-water advisory after a low pressure issue at one of Atlanta's water stations caused much of downtown to be without water. The Department of Watershed Management has issued a boil water advisory and is calling for immediate water restriction to critical uses only to allow system pressures to rebuild.

About two dozen Atlanta public schools were also affected, and the system provided bottled water to those students. School officials said food service operations were not affected by the outage.

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Patch Editor Tim Darnell contributed to this reporting.
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