Water supply restored in Volgograd after a utility accident

Administration of Volgograd reported on the restoration of water supply in the Soviet and Voroshilovsky districts of the city, in which on October 28 the water supply was turned off due to an accident at the sewer. According to the mayor’s office, the local Water Supply Concessions LLC brought the operation of the main networks to the normative hydraulic regime. According to the Volgograd city administration, water is already being supplied to homes and social institutions in the districts.

LLC Water Supply Concessions explainedthat for the entire period of lack of water and heat, starting from the moment of the accident on October 28, consumers will be recalculated.

A breakthrough in the sewer in Volgograd occurred on the night of October 28. Sewer drains were flooded with the square named after Alexandra Pakhmutova on Kalinin Street in the floodplain of the Tsaritsa River and the Zero Longitudinal Highway. Two districts of the city fell into the water and heat cut-off zone: Sovetsky and Voroshilovsky (1100 apartment buildings, 17 thousand private households, 8 institutions with round-the-clock stay of citizens, the activities of schools and kindergartens were suspended). Regional Department of the TFR aroused criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (performance of work and provision of services that do not meet the requirements of life and health safety).

Sergey Petunin, Saratov