Seoul Dongdaemun, Jungnang, and Seongdong Districts: Water Supply Cut for 260,000 Households from 5 PM

From 5 p.m. on the 25th, the water supply was cut off to approximately 260,000 households in Dongdaemun-gu, Jungnang-gu, and Seongdong-gu, Seoul.

The Seoul Arisu Headquarters announced that while repairing a leak in the transmission pipe at Guui Water Purification Plant in the morning, a valve malfunction occurred, and emergency repairs are underway.

Due to the suspension of water supply to the Yongma Reservoir during the valve repair process, a total of 259,840 households in Dongdaemun-gu, Jungnang-gu (Myeonmok-dong, Sangbong-dong, Mangu-dong, Sinnae 1-dong, Muk 2-dong), and Seongdong-gu (Yongdap-dong) experienced water outages starting from 5 p.m. that day.

The Seoul Arisu Headquarters plans to supply eight water trucks and 120,000 bottles of bottled Arisu water through the district offices.

Additionally, emergency disaster text messages were sent to residents, and water storage tanks at large water supply points were requested to stop storing water.

An official from the headquarters stated, "We are working with the goal of completing repairs and restoring water supply by midnight."

On the 21st, as public anxiety grows over larvae in tap water, a view of the sedimentation basin at the Ttukdo Arisu Water Purification Center in Seongdong-gu, Seoul. Photo by Moon Honam munonam@

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