CANCELLED: Water Shut-Off to the Mountainside Estates Neighborhood on Thursday, November 30

CANCELLED:  Water Shut-Off to the Mountainside Estates Neighborhood on Thursday, November 30

The water system work in the Mountainside Estates neighborhood that had been scheduled for today, Thursday, November 30, has been cancelled.  The water utility crew has been diverted out the road to complete an emergency repair.  There will be no water shut-off in the Mountainside neighborhood today.

A future information release will go out when the Mountainside work has been rescheduled.

For more information, please contact the Utilities Division at (907) 586-0393.

 

 

 

Water Shut-Off to the Mountainside Estates Neighborhood on Thursday, November 30

The City and Borough of Juneau’s Utilities Division will be working on the water system in the Mountainside Estates neighborhood on Thursday, November 30.  Water will be shut off at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday.  This will eliminate all water flow starting on Craig Street and including everything above Abby Way.  Approximately 100 customers will be affected by the shut-off.  The Utilities Division plans to have water service restored by 4:00 p.m.

For more information, please contact the Utilities Division at (907) 586-0393.

 

Toxic discharges to CBJ sewer system prohibited

During the week of October 9, 2023, the CBJ Utility detected and responded to three separate instances of discharges of toxic and prohibited substances into the public sewer system, comprised of fuels, acids and solvents.  None of these substances belong in the sewer system.   They each pose threats to human health and risk to the environment, disrupt waste treatment operations, and cost the community-owned system a lot of money to manage.

Discharging toxic and prohibited substances to CBJ’s sewer system constitutes a violation of CBJ’s Sewer Code, Section 75.02.080 – Use of public sewers;

  1. No persons shall discharge or cause to be discharged to any public sewer any harmful waters or wastes, whether liquid, solid or gas, capable of causing obstruction to the flow in the sewers, damage or hazard to structures, equipment and personnel of the sewage works, or other interference with the proper operation of the sewage works.

CBJ Utility staff are currently tracking the source of the discharges detected last week and are conducting an investigation to determine the responsible parties.

Safe and legal disposal of toxic materials is easily accomplished by bringing those materials to Juneau’s RecycleWorks. For further information about RecycleWorks, contact Stuart Ashton at (907) 364-7405 or [email protected] .

For more information about the Utility, contact Chad Gubala at [email protected] or (907) 586-0393.

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