Oxford warns of brief water pressure drops on Old Taylor Road
Low water pressure was expected for customers south of Belk Boulevard, along Old Taylor Road and South Lamar Boulevard during a three-hour water-main repair Tuesday night.
Customers south of Belk Boulevard, along Old Taylor Road and on South Lamar Boulevard were set to see low water pressure for a few hours Tuesday night while contractors worked on a water main in Oxford. The city said the disruption was expected to begin between about 7 and 8 p.m. on June 30 and last roughly three hours.
Oxford said the pressure drop was tied to scheduled maintenance, not a long-term shutdown, and the issue was expected to be corrected once the work was finished. That made the warning especially important for restaurants, apartments, day cares and medical offices along one of the city’s busiest corridors, where even a brief loss of pressure can complicate cooking, cleaning, handwashing and opening for business.
City engineers oversee the design, construction and supervision of public infrastructure projects that include water, sewer, street, stormwater and capital improvement work. The Old Taylor Road repair came as Oxford was already posting other late-June infrastructure alerts, including road closures on Anderson Road and South Lamar Boulevard, adding to a stretch of maintenance activity across the city.
Residents and business owners who needed to monitor conditions could check Oxford’s public outage-status map, which refreshes every 30 seconds, and use the city’s local alerts system. Oxford said those alerts can be targeted by location and sent by text, email, web and the Nixle mobile app, giving people a fast way to learn whether their street or building was included in a utility notice.
The warning also landed after Oxford dealt with a separate water-system pressure problem earlier this year. On Jan. 29, the city issued a precautionary boil-water notice after a temporary suspension of service tied to water-system pressure issues, then lifted it on Feb. 3 after test results from the Mississippi Department of Health confirmed the water was properly treated and safe.
For the Old Taylor Road repair, the city’s message was narrower: expect a short pressure drop, plan around it if your business or household depends on steady water service, and watch for the system to return to normal once crews finished the work.
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