A rupture in a water transmission line at Jonesboro-Hodge High School that is connected to the main water line for the town of Jonesboro will cause area residents to have deal with a water outage on Monday. 

On Saturday evening, Jonesboro residents received notification from the Code Red warning system that a water leak had been reported and that no repair would be able to be made until Monday morning.

Jonesboro Mayor J. “Spike” Harris added that the water line problems at the school was so severe that would have to be made by an outside contractor and that the town’s water would have to be cut off for what is hopefully a short period of time Monday. 

“We are expecting the contracting crew to begin working on the line at 6:00 am on Monday and are hoping the repair won’t take more than a few hours to complete,” said Harris. “We will be making a follow up statement to town residents as soon as we know more.”