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THE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. RIGHT NOW. A BOIL WATER ADVISORY IN NEW ORLEANS EAST AS A WATER MAIN BREAK CAUSED MAJOR PROBLEMS FOR PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES. SO HERES A LOOK RIGHT NOW AT THE IMPACTED AREA. ITS ALL IN RED, WHICH INCLUDES THE LAKEFRONT AIRPORT GOING ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE OAK ISLAND SUBDIVISION. WDSU REPORTER BRITTANY VERNER IS LIVE WHERE THE MAIN HAP WHERE THE MAIN BREAK HAPPENED AS CREWS ARE WRAPPING UP THE REPAIRS AT MORRISON AND BENSON. YEAH, WELL, CREWS ACTUALLY WRAPPED UP THOSE REPAIRS EARLIER TODAY. THEY WERE OUT HERE THIS MORNING, THOUGH, WORKING IN THIS AREA BEHIND ME. SO HARD THAT THEY HAD WATER UP TO THEIR NECK TRYING TO MAKE THOSE REPAIRS. PEOPLE IN THIS AREA, HOWEVER, SAY THEYRE UPSET BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE THESE BOIL WATER ADVISORIES KEEP HAPPENING TOO OFTEN. GET IT TOGETHER. ITS THE MESSAGE MRS. JOHNSTON IN NEW ORLEANS EAST HAD FOR LEADERS AT THE SEWAGE AND WATER BOARD FOLLOWING ANOTHER BOIL WATER ADVISORY IN HER AREA. I KEEP A KETTLE OF BOILED WATER ON MY STOVE BECAUSE SEWAGE AND WATER BOIL. GO OUT ALL THE TIME, SO I KEEP THAT JUST IN CASE. THIS IS ABOUT THE THIRD ONE, SAY IN A MONTH WEVE HAD LIKE THREE TUESDAY MORNING, NEIGHBORS IN NEW ORLEANS EAST WERE PROMPTED TO BOIL WATER FOLLOWING ANOTHER WATER MAIN BREAK NEAR BENSON AND MORRISON ROAD. ALL THIS WAS FLOODED. IT WAS FLOODED ALL OVER HERE AND IT LEFT KREWE WORKERS NECK DEEP IN WATER WHILE TRYING TO REPAIR THOSE ISSUES. ITS VERY FRUSTRATING, VERY FRUSTRATING BECAUSE I GOT TO USE POTS WATER LIKE AND I HAVE A THREE MONTH OLD BABY AND I HAVE A SIX YEAR OLD AND ITS ITS INCONVENIENT FOR ME AND MY TIME. THIS MAP SHOWS HOW WIDESPREAD THE ISSUES WERE. IN ADDITION TO THE LOW WATER PRESSURE OR NO PRESSURE AT ALL, MOTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISMISSED EARLY AND SEVERAL BUSINESSES HAD TO QUICKLY ADAPT TO BOILING WATER TO REMAIN OPEN, NOT TO MENTION THE NEIGHBORS FORCED TO BUY MORE BOTTLED WATER. YEAH, I NEED MY WATER FIX. I NEED THE WATER TO BE BACK, RIGHT? AND IM TIRED OF FLUSHING THE TOILET WITH HOT WATER AND WATER BOTTLES. ITS A REOCCURRING ISSUE. NEIGHBORS IN THE AREA HOPES GET RESOLVED QUICKLY. I SAID. I WAS NOT GOING TO PAY FOR WATER AND PAY A WATER BILL TOO, BUT NOW YOU HAVE TO KEEP IT BECAUSE SEWAGE AND WATER BOARD IS OUT ALL THE TIME. NOW, MANY NEIGHBORS IN THIS AREA SAY THEY SAW CREWS INSTALLING SMART METERS THIS MORNING, AND THEY BELIEVE THATS WHAT TRIGGERED THE WATER MAIN BREAK. WE REACHED OUT TO THE SEWERAGE AND WATER BOARD TO SEE IF THEY THINK IT HAD ANY IMPACT CONCERNING WHAT HAPPENED HERE. WERE STILL WAITING FOR THEM TO HEAR BACK, BUT TO SEE THE ENTIRE AREA OF THE BOIL WATER ADVISORY VISIT OUR WEBSIT