Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | 2:30 p.m.
The operators work on the affected pipe but there could be a lack of water, so the recommendation is not to waste it. //Photo: Esteban González.
The operators work on the affected pipe but there could be a lack of water, so the recommendation is not to waste it. //Photo: Esteban González.
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From the Jardín América Public Services Cooperative, they asked the community to take care of household drinking water reserves because a series of repairs are being carried out on the 450mm raw water delivery pipe. located in the area of provincial route 7 and high tension.
For this reason, there could be a lack of vital fluid in the afternoon today, so it is advisable to use it rationally throughout the day.
Ernesto Faccendini, manager of the local cooperative, in dialogue with The territory He said: “This is not new for us, we often have this type of inconvenience so that in the sector in which we work it is a low area, where there are wetlands and repairs are complicated.”
He said that they usually carry out this type of work on Sunday mornings when there is less consumption, but since it was an emergency, the place where the problem was was found and the area had to be cleared first because of the water that had accumulated and then carried out the action. . “That is why the request to take care of the reserves, on a day as beautiful as today, with so much sun, people take advantage of it to wash clothes or cars and that consumption complicates the situation,” Faccendini said.
In addition, the leader referred to the rains that have fallen so far in April. “The last months of last year were difficult, January also, the rains began in February, March was a record and so far this month it has rained more than average, so the situation of the groundwater improved, the watercourses recovered And on that side we are happy.” He, in turn, pointed out that on days when it rains torrentially, it complicates water treatment, since it requires more filter washing and stops in the process, so problems must be solved immediately “.
new works
Finally, Faccendini said that they are waiting for new works. “We have a project to expand a plant that is important to have more water treatment capacity to be able to make it drinkable better because treatment is complicated before these situations,” he said, adding: “Regarding the work on the Paraná River, we have knowledge that it is about to be put out to tender, so we are hopeful that in two years, and hopefully not many more, we will have water from the Paraná to stop suffering when there are times of drought and we can only supply from the Tabay stream,” he concluded.
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