Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke met with Tennessee American Water (TAW) officials to discuss the outage that left 35,000 homes and businesses without water.
“They've known it for a long time that they've got old crumbling pipes,” he said. “I could give anyone a long list of the failures that have occurred in my time in government which dates back to the '70s.”
Water service for thousands of area residents and businesses will not likely be re-established until at least Saturday morning after a Thursday water main break left around 35,000 connections with low or no water.
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