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Oklahoma City official provides update on ongoing water issues amid winter storm Share Updated: 10:53 PM CST Feb 17, 2021 Share Updated: 10:53 PM CST Feb 17, 2021
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Show Transcript SAYS INMATES WILL BE GETTING BOTTLES OF WATER AT MEALS. THEY ARE ALSO PUTTING BARRELS ON EACH FLOOR OF THE JAIL TO MANUALLY FLUSH TOILETS. EVAN: AND THESE TYPES OF ISSUES ARE NOT RARE. WE’VE HEARD FROM SO MANY OF YOU WITH LOW WATER PRESSURE OR NO WATER AT ALL. KOCO’S ABIGAIL OGLE JOINING US LIFE WITH AN UPDATE ON RESTORATION HERE, AND, ABBY, ANOTHER UNSAVORY IMPACT THIS IS HAVING. ABIGAIL: WELL, IF EVERYONE WAS WATCHING LAST NIGHT, THE 10:00 NEWS, KOCO 5 NEWS, YOU HEARD FIELD METEOROLOGIST MICHAEL ARMSTRONG MENTION IT. I TALKED ABOUT THE WATER SHORTAGES AND WHAT WAS CAUSING THE SMELL. SOME OF THAT, UNFORTUNATELY, HAS BEEN RAW SEWAGE. ABIGAIL: TUESDAY NIGHT, FIELD METEOROLOGIST MICHAEL ARMSTRONG REPORTING ON THE IMPACTS FROM THE STORM, INCLUDING WATER-
By: Jennifer Pierce
OKLAHOMA CITY -
Residents across the Oklahoma City metro woke up on Monday without water. Not because of frozen pipes but water main breaks.
Oklahoma City utility crews have been working all hours of the day in below freezing temperatures to repair the lines.
“It’s rolling,” said Jennifer McClintock of Oklahoma City s Utilities Department. “Once you get one fixed, another one may pop up.”
Oklahoma City utility officials said at one point crews were responding to 21 water main breaks. One near Northwest 50th and Portland Avenue happened in the overnight hours to unsuspecting residents.
“I attempted to get to work and realized our street was completely flooded,” said Jennifer Hopkins, an Oklahoma City resident.
Unprecedented storm staggers OKC
Snowplows work to clear the road during a winter storm Sunday in Oklahoma City. Snow and ice blanketed large swaths of the U.S. on Sunday, prompting canceled flights, making driving perilous and reaching into areas as far south as Texas’ Gulf Coast, where snow and sleet were expected overnight. (AP photo/Sue Ogrocki)
OKLAHOMA CITY – A dangerous winter storm held Oklahoma in its icy grip Monday, shutting down businesses, prohibiting travel and depriving residents of basic needs like water and power.
By Monday afternoon, state officials were scrambling to support utilities running dangerously low on the fuel needed to keep residents warm and alive as temperatures plummeted below zero. Rolling blackouts designed to assure emergency power were affecting the region.
By: Ryan Welton, News 9
OKLAHOMA CITY -
UPDATE (10:37 p.m. February 14, 2021): The city of Oklahoma City said late Sunday night that water service has been restored to residents on the south side of OKC.
Some residents went without water after the source of their water, the Stanley Draper Treatment Plant, froze on Sunday afternoon.
The freezing of the treatment plant also caused other customers to experience low water pressure.
The water lines have been repaired. City officials said normal water pressure will follow soon after.
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Many water customers on the south side of Oklahoma City are without service Sunday afternoon after lines that are part of the Draper Treatment Plant froze, according to a city utility spokesperson.