Lufkin Water Restored, Residents Asked to Conserve

LUFKIN — An electronic problem at Lufkin’s water supply was corrected Thursday morning after the entire city went without water overnight Wednesday. That’s the word from KETK and the Lufkin Daily News. According to City Manager Paul Parker, a large circuit breaker at the water plant on Martin Luther King Drive went out Wednesday evening. Due to a glitch with an alarm system that monitors city equipment, the issue was not discovered until about 4 a.m. Thursday. City workers and contractors labored through the early morning hours to correct the issue and had everything restored around 7 a.m., Parker said.

“Everything is working again,” Parker said. “We had been down six hours before we realized the issue because of the alarm failure. Even the backup generator didn’t kick on. We will do everything we can to rectify that glitch. We didn’t know until now it could occur.”

While water service has been restored, Parker said Lufkinites may have noticed decreased water pressure throughout the day Thursday. Parker asked that residents limit outdoor watering until this is no longer an issue. “The water in the overhead storage is low. That keeps our water pressure,” he explained. “People probably won’t notice this except for outdoor usage like sprinkler systems. It’s probably better just to turn them off for now.” Parker said he expected water pressure to return to normal by Thursday evening.