Some Lincoln County residents were dealing with no water and lowpressure concerns Saturday evening as water association officialswere trying to determine the cause.

An answering service spokesman said Topisaw Water Associationcrews had been dealing with calls, regarding no water and low waterpressure, since around 7 p.m. Saturday. The focus was in the EastLincoln area, but the number of customers affected was notimmediately known.

A water main line in the Nola Road area was reportedly broken,but that could not be confirmed by press time Saturday night.

Lincoln Rural Water Association officials were not available forcomment regarding any possible problems for its associationcustomers.

Meanwhile, a frozen gauge in the Wesson water system left someresidents with low water pressure Friday evening, but officialssaid it was easily fixed.

Wesson Public Works Director Mark Brown said there was someconfusion that there might have been a broken line, but in reality,the water pressure problems were caused by the weather.

“One of the controllers had frozen, and it was telling thecontrol panels that the tank was full of water and it wasn’t,”Brown said.

So the tanks were pumping as though they were full, whenactually they were running low, he explained.

“Once we got it turned back on, everything was back to normal,”he said.

Brown said there was no reason to issue a boil water noticesince none of the lines were actually compromised.

“If it was, we’d have been under a boil water notice, but it wasjust that a lot of people lost water pressure,” he said.

Brown said he’s fairly certain very few people actually wentwithout water for any amount of time, if any did. The rest of townjust had two or three hours of low pressure around suppertime.

“If anyone was out of water, it wasn’t but a few, and maybe itwas where the hills were, where the water couldn’t make it over thehills or something,” he said. “But there wasn’t a busted line oranything. It was just that it was telling me it was full and itwasn’t.”