All households again connected to drinking water, the equivalent of three lost Olympic swimming pools

End of the alert. In Perpignan, the last private fireplaces of drinking water following a massive leak in the city center were connected Monday evening according to Éric de Saint-Martin, director of Agglo water, interviewed Tuesday, June 17 Here Roussillon (ex-France blue).

Up to 6,000 households were deprived of water after the discovery of this leak on Sunday morning. It is now located, explains the director of water Agglo, but “10,000 cubic meters of water has been lost, the equivalent of three Olympic swimming pools“. The Director of the Public Water and Sanitation Service of Perpignan puts an assumption on the origin of the leak:”Perhaps fatigue of the pipeline, which was placed between 1945 and 1955. It is in gray cast iron and therefore brittle as soon as there are pressure variations or significant flow rates.“”
Even if the water is still troubled, “She is perfectly drinkable“says Éric de Saint-Martin Tuesday morning.