“I look forward to being in this role for a very long time.”Īgnew, the seventh of nine children born in Tupelo, Miss., recalled difficult times from his childhood when his father worked “in the fields” as a sharecropper, and how his parents always stressed the importance of education.Īfter graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1984, Agnew worked as a reporter for The Greenwood Commonwealth and The Sun Herald in Biloxi, and moved on to The Cincinnati Enquirer, where he was promoted to assistant city editor in 1988.
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"Concerning the current boil water notice there will be a meeting between our public works department, and the Department of Health to discuss the inconsistency of turbidity levels," Lumumba said of when the boil water order might be lifted. Lumumba said he is unsure when the notice will end. Since then, we've retrofitted the water plant to provide soda ash, which we believe is more present with today's standards for residents, but does not solve the issue in its entirety." "In 2016 the city was required to move away from lime slurry due to the fluctuations in turbidity levels. "The old system demands resources for residents and not someone who just wants revenue," Lumumba said. Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said in a media briefing that the city's water treatment facility is fragile and outdated, which contributes to a portion of the issue. A chemist with the Mississippi State Department of Health has ordered the City of Jackson to enact a boil water notice for all city water customers due to high turbidity of surface water with possible disease-causing bacteria, city officials said in a press release issued Saturday.