[Lincolnparkdc] DC Water will shut off water for one night next week to 7 blocks in Lincoln Park area (Holtzman, Steve (SMD 6B05))

[Mark Jordan]

>
> Just an FYI - I live on Kentucky Ave on a block where DC water recently
> did a water shutoff.  Apparently when the water was turned back on and the
> system was repressurized it caused the backflow preventer on our hot water
> heater to break, resulting in a very slow water leak that ended up causing
> some damage.
>
> Can I prove it was the cause? No, but the leak began immediately after the
> repressurization and when I told the plumber what was happening his first
> question was "Was the water to your house recently cut off and
> represurized, because I've seen that cause this problem before?"
>
> I don't know whether this is a rare phenomenon and whether it's avoidable,
> but thought I'd let people know.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 4:40 PM Holtzman, Steve (SMD 6B05) <
> 6B05 at anc.dc.gov> wrote:
>
>> Hi Roxanne,
>>
>>    I hear you.
>>
>> Residents on Kentucky Ave. will remember that I sent them a similar
>> notice about an impending DC Water shutoff to them last month only to find
>> out later that DC Water only needed to shut off water (daytime) to the
>> eastern side of the street and left the western side alone. In that case,
>> DCWATER did, somewhere internally, know which exact addresses they were
>> going to impact, they just didn't include that kind of detail in notices to
>> affected ANC commissioners.
>>
>> For after-hours work, as is the case here, they need ANC commissioners
>> representing affected residents to sign off and give a clearance before
>> they can schedule the work. Based on the experience last month, I noted to
>> DC WATER that I could only give them that sign-off if they first gave me
>> the specific addresses affected and the hours they'd be affected. Hence the
>> exact list of addresses I posted. I also wanted the exact date. But, they
>> said they couldn't set this until after they got their permit.  They told
>> me they'd have a date, hopefully this weekend.
>>
>> As to the hours of work, their answer was that the kind of shutoff they
>> need, if done in daytime, would have forced the dry cleaner to close
>> business for a day. There may have been other reasons as well. In re the
>> number of hours and the starting time, I don't know. Based on past
>> experience, they sometimes give themselves a margin of error by announcing
>> longer shutoff hours than they actually need, and hopefully that will be
>> the case here. Still, better to assume the period of hours that they have
>> announced and plan accordingly.
>>
>> And, yes, there have been situations where they have announced work for a
>> specific day and time period and then end up having to postpone it. I don't
>> have any control over that. But, in our ANC6B clearance, we've stipulated
>> that DC Water notify residents and the ANC if there are any changes in the
>> households affected or in the announced date and timings of the shutoff.
>> Ideally, affected households should get individual notices. Them telling me
>> is more like a failsafe in case that doesn't work.  And, If I get that kind
>> of notice, I'll send something out to everyone immediately.
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> (fyi, You're mapped into ANC6b08 which is also the case for about 75% of
>> the potentially affected households in this case. As I noted, the seat is
>> vacant until after the Nov. election,so, in the interim, as the
>> commissioner for the adjoining district, I'm trying to do what I can to
>> cover you guys as well.).
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* lincolnparkdc <lincolnparkdc-bounces at lincolnparkdc.info> on
>> behalf of Roxanne Walker <rw99dc at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Friday, September 16, 2022 2:02 PM
>> *To:* lincolnparkdc at lincolnparkdc.info <lincolnparkdc at lincolnparkdc.info>
>> *Subject:* [Lincolnparkdc] DC Water will shut off water for one night
>> next week to 7 blocks in Lincoln Park area (Holtzman, Steve (SMD 6B05))
>>
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>> Steve, thanks for the heads up about this.
>> We had a DC Water door hanger a few weeks ago saying they were shutting
>> off water the next day from 7 pm to 7 am.
>> We rushed out and bought enough bottled water to cook dinner, flush the
>> toilets, fill the dog dishes, etc. -- and then it didn't happen.
>>
>> Does anyone know why this starts so early in the evening? And why do
>> they need so long?
>> Could they not start at 10 or 11 pm when many people are getting ready
>> for sleep?
>>
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