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POLITICS: LARGE GROUPS GATHERED TODAY IN FREEDOM PARK AND MIDTOWN TO CELEBRATE PRESIDENT ELECT BIDEN’S VICTORY. CHEERING AND HORNS HONKING WERE ALL YOU COULD HEAR. SEVERAL INTERSECTIONS BECAME BACKED UP AS VEHICLES STOPPED TO HONK ALONG WITH THE CROWDS CELEBRATIONS.

TRAFFIC: PONCE DE LEON IS EXPERIENCING DELAYS EASTBOUND AND WESTBOUND DUE TO CARS LAYING DRAG. APD AND GSP ARE HAVING A FIELD DAY. MULTIPLE INDIVIDUALS ARRESTED AT THIS TIME

UPDATE: THE DEPARTMENT OF WATERSHED HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT THAT THE BOIL WATER ADVISORY IS STILL IN EFFECT. ADDITIONALLY, THE DEPARTMENT IS STATING,

“SAMPLING OF THE IMPACTED AREAS WAS INITIATED LAST NIGHT AND LAB RESULTS ARE EXPECTED AFTER 7:30 PM TONIGHT. THE GEORGIA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DIVISION WILL ADVISE THE DEPARTMENT OF WATERSHED MANAGEMENT WHEN THE ADVISORY CAN BE LIFTED.”

MORE INFORMATION CAM BE FOUND IN TODAYS RELEASE HERE:

Atlantawatershed.org | Boil Water Advisory Still In Effect For Portions of the City of Atlanta and the Cities of South Fulton, Union City, Fairburn, and Chattahoochee Hills BOIL WATER ADVISORY STILL IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA AND THE CITIES OF SOUTH FULTON, UNION CITY, FAIRBURN, AND CHATTAHOOCHEE HILLS

UPDATE: PNN HAS GOTTEN WORD FROM CAMPUS POLICE THAT THERE IS A POTENTIAL NATURAL GAS LEAK COINCIDING WITH THE CURRENT WATER MAIN BREAKAGE.

BYSTANDERS AND NONESSENTIAL PERSONEL ARE BEING USHERED TO SAFER DISTANCES FROM THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE DUE TO THIS POSSIBLE NATURAL GAS LEAK.

BREAKING: PNN HAS GOTTEN SEVERAL REPORTS OF WATER OUTAGES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. FIELD OPERATIONS TEAM CAN CONFIRM THIS IN OLD FOURTH WARD.

WE ARE AWAITING CONFIRMATION THAT A WATER MAIN HAS BROKE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF WATERSHED NEAR GEORGIA TECH.

REPORTS ON REDDIT SUGGEST THIS IS THE LOCATION OF THE BREAK, AND A PHOTO FROM A FACEBOOK GROUP SHOWS WHAT LOOKS LIKE A TORRENT OF WATER.

WE WILL KEEP THIS STORY UPDATED AS WE GET MORE INFORMATION.