No one was injured Monday morning at Jackson's O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant after a chlorine leak was reported, but does not appear to have affected water safety "as long as you follow MSDH precautions,” a state health department official said.

"While this was a chlorine leak, the Mississippi State Department of Health engineers monitored the water disinfection during the leak," said Mississippi State Department of Health Incident Commander Jim Craig. "The disinfection process was uninterrupted."

Mississippi Department of Emergency Management said on-site safety personnel were notified of an alarm that went off at the plant. Employees were evacuated from the chemical building as emergency personnel responded to the scene.

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Jackson Fire Department's hazmat team, along with Ridgeland Fire Department and O.B. Curtis maintenance staff identified three valves with leaks and were able to secure the area by shortly after 11 a.m., MEMA said in a news release.

“The chemical building at O.B. Curtis is an area where increased focused needs to occur to abate additional safety hazards," Craig said. "We continually work to improve the safety of this facility."

The building is designed to have air scrubbers to keep chlorine from leaving the structure. Today, they reportedly worked as designed.

The state's notice was issued after Jackson reported a long list of issues including sewage overflowing into the Pearl River and water treatment system failures.

After heavy rains and flooding at the end of August caused the failure of one of the city's water treatment plants, Gov. Tate Reeves and Mayor Chokwe Lumumba declared states of emergency and told residents to not use the water for consumption until water pressure was restored.

For roughly six weeks the city of Jackson was under a state-issued boil-water notice. The notice was lifted Thursday.

Also, on Monday, the City of Jackson and the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency awarded Hemphill Construction Company of Florence a more than $1 million emergency contract to manage the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment plant for the next 60 days.

Chief of Communications for MEMA, Malary White, said the contract is initially for $1,081,280.

“The reason I'm using $1 million right now is that the contract can be adjusted,” White said of the contract. “We're having to also take into account like overtime hours worked on the weekends and those types of things. The number that I give you is it is very much subject to change.”

Other bidders on the project were The Lemoine Company of Lafayette, Louisiana and Fortis Construction of Pearl.

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