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Around 500 City of Blue Ridge water customers are without water due to a main water line break on Bullen Gap Road. -
Around 500 City of Blue Ridge water customers are without water due to a main water line break on Bullen Gap Road. -
Tri-State EMC crews are busy this morning (Friday, March 26, 10 a.m.) working to stabilize the power pole in the area where a washout on Bullen Gap Road in Blue Ridge destroyed a city water line. -
Around 500 City of Blue Ridge water customers are without water due to a main water line break on Bullen Gap Road.
Severe storms that moved through Fannin County Thursday, March 25, and on into early Friday, March 26, morning caused widespread damages, the two most serious reported on Bullen Gap Road in Blue Ridge and the Boss T. Mull Memorial Bridge in McCaysville.
Blue Ridge Mayor Donna Whitener said Friday morning around 500 city water customers south of Bullen Gap Road are without water because a main line was broken during the storm when a washout occurred on the road.
That washout also took away a small portion of the roadway and left a large power pole unstable. Tri-State EMC crews were on the scene overnight to stabilize the pole.
Whitener said the city will begin work to repair the line immediately. In the meantime, the city will work to help affected customers receive bottled water.
McCaysville Police Chief Mike Earley said the Mull Bridge was closed after several large items, including river decks and at least one large tank, struck its supports. During the night, the river had also risen to the level of water flowing across the surface of the bridge.
Earley said the bridge cannot be reopened until inspected by the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT).
He said GDOT had been contacted and promised to inspect the bridge “as quickly as possible,” but there were several other bridges in other areas that also had to be inspected before re-opening.