Drinking water service was restored in the north of the Aburrá Valley

After a weekend with interruption in the aqueduct service in several municipalities of the Aburrá Valley, this Tuesday, March 23, Empresas Publicas de Medellín (EPM) announced that there is already drinking water throughout the territory.

It should be remembered that at least 329,384 customers had interrupted the aqueduct service since the night of last Friday, March 18, due to work that was carried out to modernize the Manantiales drinking water purification plant.

Investment in this set of projects, including the modernization of Manantiales and other interventions in metropolitan networks and the La Ayurá plant, exceeds four billion pesos, according to EPM.

The works at the Manantiales plant

Maintenance and modernization work, which lasted almost 70 hours without interruption, enabled the plant to expand its capacity by an additional one cubic meter per second.

This, according to EPM, will provide support and operational capacity to the system and ensure, along with other interventions, drinking water for all current and future inhabitants of the Aburrá Valley, especially in the summer seasons and in the face of drought weather events such as El Niño.

Among the works are the change maneuver of the raw water macrometer that arrives from the Riogrande II reservoir to the plant, as well as the construction of a new production line of one cubic meter per second of maximum daily flow that will operate as operational backup in cases of contingencies, called the Backup Module for Operational Flexibility (MOFLO).

In addition, it was used to carry out general washing of storage tanks and maintenance on some electromechanical equipment.

With the Unified Command Post, the interruption of the drinking water service was addressed

During the scheduled interruption, EPM activated a special operation designed to supply drinking water to the community in the north of the Aburrá Valley, coordinated from a Unified Command Post (PMU).

Between the afternoon of Friday, March 18 and the evening of Monday, 21, the inhabitants were supplied with 6,332,000 liters of drinking water and 1,720 five-liter bags.

This work was carried out through 54 tanker routes, of which 45 were for residential customers and nine for corporate customers. Likewise, 30 fixed tanks were established to supply water to the affected population, as reported by Empresas Publicas de Medellín.

The water bags, according to the company in charge of supplying the liquid, were delivered to people oxygen dependent or undergoing dialysis treatment, in their homes or in specialized institutions. Bags were also given to merchants in the neighborhoods.

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