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JXN Water announced on Friday that five different apartment complexes in Jackson have past due water balances of more than $267,000. The five complexes water balances, collectively, totaled to ...
Sen. David Parker, R-Olive Branch, addresses Senate members regarding a bill he authored to set up a nonprofit regional governing board for the Jackson water system at the Capitol in Jackson in 2023.
The Mississippi Senate passed Senate Bill 2628 Tuesday, which would put the City of Jackson's water and sewer infrastructure into the hands of the state after federal Third Party Water ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — For the second year in a row, the Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that would transfer control of the state capital city's troubled water system to a regional board.
A public health crisis in and around the city of Jackson, Mississippi, began in late August 2022 after the Pearl River flooded due to severe storms in the state. [1] The flooding caused the O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city's largest water treatment facility, which was already running on backup pumps due to failures the month prior, to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely.
Senate Bill 2628, which would have designated a state government appointed board to take over the Jackson Water System, failed in the Mississippi House of Representative Tuesday.
Sen. David Blount, D-Jackson, is already a fierce opponent of the bill, and he told lawmakers Thursday about the upcoming meeting where Henifin intends to give updates on the city’s water system.
The inspector general’s report said that according to a former interim director for Jackson’s Department of Public Works, one distribution pipe had been broken since 2016 and leaked 4 million ...