INGLESIDE, Texas —
The city of Ingleside rescinded a water boil order put in place Monday after improvements were made to the city's water system earlier this week.
The city said in a news release Thursday that the TCEQ had given the go-ahead for water to be used normally after appropriate tests had been done.
Ingleside City Manager Brent Lewis tells 3NEWS that the work was part of a bigger project set to improve the city's drainage system.
"The thing is the TCEQ, Texas Commission of Environmental Quality, they do require us to notify our citizens when we do drop below a certain water pressure and that's what's happening on this project that we're going to start on Monday evening," Lewis said.
Ingleside will be working to complete a $3.3 million drainage project funded by the Texas General Land Office called the Houghton Project.
Because the project was funded by the GLO, Lewis says that the entirety of the project must be finished by April 2024.
He says the project is at a point where the water main needs to be lowered. He says only one valve near Highway 361 being able to shut off water in the project area is the reason for people needing to boil their water out of precaution.
"But it does not shut it off enough to do the work. It'll still be low pressure. Therefore, to lower that main, we are required to go ahead and cut the main. We're going to put two valves in which will help isolate this at a future date, and then lower the main," Lewis said.
The water boil could last anywhere between 24 and 48 hours. Once the mains are put back into service, Lewis the city will have to follow the water testing protocol.
We'll have to do sampling across the city, send in the tests. We'll get the results back, and after it shows there's no bacteria in it, then we'll be okay and then we'll lift the water boil," he said.