Saturday, January 08, 2000
Slow water problem fixed
1,000 Warren homes affected
BY DAVID ECK
Enquirer Contributor
LEBANON — A computer glitch at a Warren County water plant left more than 1,000 households in Deerfield and Hamilton townships with low water pressure for about four hours early Friday.
“Something didn't function properly and it lost its program,” said Warren County Sanitary Engineer Dick Renneker. “It's not Y2K. It definitely was not systemwide.”
The computers in the plant didn't activate pumps when they should have, causing the levels in water tanks to drop, Mr. Renneker said. And a failsafe system that would have alerted water employees to the problem didn't work, either.
Officials don't know why the computers failed.
Though the problem occurred about 1 a.m., it wasn't until 5 a.m. that department employees were made aware of it. They turned on the pumps manually.
“Nobody in the water department knew there was a problem until we started getting calls,” Mr. Renneker said. “If they don't have it corrected we will have people manning the stations until it is corrected. It's not going to happen again. We'll just run it in a manual mode.”
The plant near Paramount's Kings Island serves Deerfield and Hamilton townships and Maineville. Pressure was back up by mid-morning.
The department has issued a boil advisory through at least today for anyone who noticed a loss in pressure. Water should be boiled for five minutes before drinking, Mr. Renneker said. The advisory was issued as a precaution.
“It's better to be safe,” Mr. Renneker said. “If you didn't notice any difference (Friday) morning when you went to work, don't pay any attention to it.”
The Deerfield Township Fire Rescue Department had its water tanker ready and added a second while the pressure was low, said Battalion Chief Mike Cardwell.
“We changed our response policy,” he said.
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