Residents in Forsyth County are asked to conserve water after strong storms Thursday night knocked out power at the county’s water treatment plant, halting production for several hours.
The water in the system is safe to drink, county officials said on Facebook, but until power was restored Friday customers were urged to use water for “emergency purposes only” while they waited for production to restart.
Officials said Georgia Power had completed restoration by 2 p.m. Friday. The county is asking “that water conservation efforts continue through Saturday at noon as we work to replenish our water resources.”
Georgia Power said it has restored service to more than 225,000 customers across the state, but more than 30,000 customers remained in the dark Friday afternoon. Another 30,000 members of Georgia’s electric membership corporations are without power Friday, with the majority of those in metro Atlanta.
The state is bracing for another round of severe weather Friday evening. Damaging wind gusts are again the primary threat and could bring down additional trees and power lines, according to the National Weather Service.
The highest risk of severe weather is from late afternoon into early evening, and the risk of tornadoes remains low.
Thursday’s storms rolled into metro Atlanta around 6 p.m., bringing widespread damaging winds. Peak gusts were between 60 and 70 mph, according to the Weather Service. At the Forsyth Public Safety Complex, the peak recorded gust was 68 mph.
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