Aguas Bonaerenses SA (ABSA) will carry out works this Friday in La Plata and a huge sector of the city could be left without water. As reported by the company, The repair of one of the main aqueducts will be carried out and the service will be affected in the area between streets 128 to 19 and 32 to 72.
“ABSA informs that this Friday the 20th, the repair of one of the main aqueducts for the water supply in the urban area of La Plata will be carried out,” reads the statement released in the last hours by the company. In it, it was anticipated that as a result of this, a decrease in water pressure could be generated in a large part of the city.
The firm explained that The tasks will focus on two sectors of the 800-millimeter pipe located on Calle 50, at the height of the Faculty of Informatics of the UNLP; and they advanced that, “to guarantee the security in the development of the tasks” it must be rReduce the pumping capacity of the Bosque Lifting Station.
As a result of these works, “low pressure or lack of water may be recorded in some sectors of the area between streets 128 to 19 and 32 to 72,” the company spokespersons warned. “Once the work is completed, the water service will gradually normalize and may generate turbidity,” they closed in this regard.
In the midst of the intense heat wave and taking into account the problems denounced by hundreds of residents throughout the city, ABSA also once again requested that the frontiers that do have a supply restrict their use to essential activities and asked to “avoid the use of mains water in recreational consumption and the filling of pools and postponing the car wash, as well as the irrigation of sidewalks and green spaces during the day, among others” to reduce “the stress of a necessary service for all”.
