Water Not Flowing Strong In Prichard

By Kimberly Curth Weekend Anchor / Reporter

Prichard Water crews may be feeling the pressure of having low water pressure.
Customers and Blount High School experienced problems for another day. A second water leak in the system was detected. Water Not Flowing Strong In Prichard

Published: Wed, August 15, 2007 - 10:36 pm Last Updated: Wed, August 15, 2007 - 10:49 pm

Kimberly Curth

Mobile County Health inspectors will be at Indian Springs Elementary School and Blount High School tomorrow morning to check on water pressure. The schools could be shut down if the pressure is not high enough. But the health department and school officials both tell News 5; they believe the pressure should be ok. Both schools have dealt with low water pressure for two days. Today, students complained to News 5, they were having trouble flushing the toilets and that it was hot at Blount High School. The school’s principal says the air conditioning is working but that it was still warm today. She says they also found a solution for the toilets, “we've been doing some, having selected rest rooms where the kids can go and the teachers can go so we wouldn't pull down all the pressure," said Blount High School Principal, Yvonne Matthews. But a parent we spoke with who did not want to be identified says she doesn’t think students should have been at the school today, "I want the Barton officials or the state officials or whoever's in charge to take the responsibility and do whatever to make it comfortable for the children or find some other location for them to attend until they can uh get things squared away with this plumbing and this electrical problem that they having," said the parent. So what’s causing the low water pressure? An Attorney for the Prichard Water and Sewer Board says the break in the water pipe they found yesterday in a wooded area off Highway 45 is not the only leak. Crews are now searching for another one. But, he says the water pressure is going up.