Gwangju City “200,000 cutoffs in 55,000 households” all-out response to minimize citizen inconvenience
(Gwangju = Yonhap News) Reporter Jo Nam-soo = On the 12th, at the Deoknam Water Purification Plant in Haengam-dong, Nam-gu, Gwangju, tap water overflowed and the road was flooded due to a failure of the water purification tank outflow valve. 2023.2.12 [email protected]
(Gwangju = Yonhap News) Reporter Cheon Jeong-in = The defective valve at Deoknam Water Purification Plant, which caused a large-scale water outage in Gwangju, has been restored.
Tap water is expected to be normally supplied to each household around midnight on the 13th.
Gwangju City completed emergency recovery for the broken valve at 6:20 pm on the 12th and started supplying water from the water purification pond to the reservoir.
The valve that was not open was opened by welding and cutting the valve that was stuck and then sealing it.
The work of removing the muddy water accumulated in the water supply pipe was also carried out at the same time.
It takes regarding 5 to 6 hours for the water supplied from the water purification pond to reach each household through the reservoir, and it is expected that normal supply will be achieved around midnight.
The large-scale water outage started on the morning of this morning when the outflow valve that sent purified water to the reservoir at the Deoknam Water Purification Plant in Gwangju did not open, causing water to overflow in the reservoir and insufficient water in the reservoir.
In the filter paper at the water purification plant overflowing with water, the device that lowers the voltage of the pump for water quality measurement was short-circuited due to flooding, causing smoke to be generated, causing a commotion where employees extinguished the fire with a fire extinguisher.
The city’s waterworks headquarters failed in an attempt to restore the water supply without any action.
In the end, from 1:00 pm on the same day, tap water supply was stopped in Seo-gu, Nam-gu, Gwangsan-gu, and Buk-gu and restoration was started.
Although the population of the area reaches 1 million, the city of Gwangju counted regarding 200,000 people in 55,000 households where tap water was actually cut off.
Gwangju City explained that only 3 out of 18 reservoirs failed to supply water, and the rest were replaced at the Yongyeon Water Purification Plant.
(Gwangju = Yonhap News) On the followingnoon of the 12th, workers are repairing a leak valve at the Deoknam Water Purification Plant in Nam-gu, Gwangju. Due to a valve failure, water supply was cut off in Seo-gu, Nam-gu, Gwangsan-gu, and some areas in Buk-gu, Gwangju. 2023.2.12 [광주시 제공. 재판매 및 DB 금지] [email protected]
The city requested that 1,980 boxes of emergency bottled water (1.8L of Bityeoul water) be supplied to areas with low water supply and promptly shut off water tank valves in places where there is a lot of tap water usage, such as apartments, schools, and hospitals, to prevent rust from entering.
Gwangju Mayor Kang Ki-jeong visited the site of the Deoknam Water Purification Plant on the same day, ordered the preparation of measures to minimize civil inconvenience, and launched an all-out response through a disaster safety meeting.
An official from Gwangju City said, “It seems that clear water will be supplied following midnight, but temporarily cloudy water may come out.”
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