Last week, the Town of Crothersville let residents know they’d be working on a project that required turning off water the following Tuesday — at least 3 days notice. The alert came out on the town’s app and multiple FaceBook reminders were posted. There was plenty of time for people to get ready — fill jugs with water for dogs and coffee, and the bathtub to flush their toilets.
Jackson County Water customers didn’t get the same courtesy.
We’re ready to take a stand!
Yesterday morning, I had a voice message at 8:50 AM from Jackson County Water Authority that our water would be off intermittently for repair starting within 10 minutes and we would be under a boil alert afterward. The Pesky neighbors didn’t even get notified. There’s nothing on the JC Water website or on social media regarding the outage.
Jackson County Water buys water from C’ville. This was a planned project and they knew last week — but unlike the town, they kept it a secret. Starting at 3:00 PM, they started telling the town that they’d be done in a hour — town customers were inconvenienced by about 3 hours.
At about 10:00 PM, I called JC Water’s answering service. Dude was unaware of any projects, but would pass my concern to their “on call” person. Mr. On-Call called me back and said water would be on within the hour. We finally got water at about 11:45 PM
There’s water everywhere – but not a drop from faucets!
Although I mowed the day before the rain started, grass here at the barndo looked like it was on steroids. I had to call on Mr. Pesky’s towing service yet again… because the lawn mower wasn’t coming out of where I had it. ARG!
Now you know: There is a place called the Northwest Angle. It’s a coastal lake area in Minnesota that is cut off from rest of the USA because one side of the lake belongs to Canada. The area was born out of miscalculating the borders in the US-British border treaty of 1783. 149 people live there.