The weekend storms moving through the region damages a water tower in the City of Harrison.
The release from the City of Harrison is below:
The Skyline Water Tower was hit by lightning early Sunday morning, May 25. In spite of all the protection built into the system, the lightning caused major damage to its electronic components. Emergency alarms notified the staff, and they have been working on the problem since Sunday morning.
Many water customers noticed a drop in water pressure. Now, all systems are being controlled without the aid of the computerized equipment that connects all the towers and tells them when water levels drop.
Harrison Public Works staff members Harley Sisco and Nathan Case appreciated Don Crawford's help from the Carroll Boone Water Association. Don said, “I’m glad to help out.”
The workers explained, “Lightning fried a lot of parts. These controls operate tank levels, and each tank has an antenna that pings to this one to let us know what is going on with water usage at each tank. But because this equipment was fried, we are having to operate each tank the “old school” way, by hand. We are manually telling the tanks to fill as needed.”
“There is a built-in lightning arrester with an attached fuse. If lightning hits the equipment, it should blow the fuse, but it didn’t.”
“We have to manually check the gauges and calculate the tank's footage level. It had gotten slightly lower than needed, so the lower water pressure was noticed.”
Customers shouldn’t have any more water pressure problems at this time.
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