Thousands of households in North Georgia could be without water for the rest of this week after a flood over the weekend damaged the water treatment plant in the town of Summerville.
The National Weather Service estimates that up to a foot of rain — and in some places even more — fell on Summerville in just a matter of hours on Sunday. Roads, homes, businesses and the local water treatment plant were inundated.
Summerville mayor Harry Harvey said he hadn’t seen flooding like it before.
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