Atlanta hospital forced to relocate patients after major water main break puts city’s water supply in jeopardy
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A massive water main break that left portions of downtown Atlanta without water and under boil water advisories over the weekend prompted officials at city’s Emory University Hospital Midtown to transfer some patients to other hospitals on Saturday.
A massive water main break that left parts of downtown Atlanta without water and under boil water advisories prompted the city’s Emory University Hospital Midtown to transfer patients to other hospitals on Saturday. The significant disruption to water service in Georgia’s capital began Friday after breaks on a 48-inch and 36-inch transmission line “that carries large volumes of water to the metropolitan area,” according to Atlanta’s Department of Watershed Management. Crews have worked to repair separate water main breaks that happened Friday in downtown and Midtown, and by Saturday evening, the initial water main break downtown was fixed, officials said in a post on X. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens declared a state of emergency in the city just a few hours after the repair to “allow access to resources in an expedited fashion.” Crews were still working to repair the other major water main break located in Midtown Atlanta on Saturday. There is no exact timeline for when those repairs will be completed, Dickens said in a news conference Saturday night. Meanwhile, dialysis patients at Emory University Hospital Midtown were transferred to other Emory hospitals for treatment, a hospital spokesperson told CNN in a statement Saturday.
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