The drinking water supply for the entire municipality of Ferté Saint-Aubin, in the Loiret, had to be cut in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday for thirty minutes, “due to a major incident on the network“, indicates the City this Wednesday.
Since this Wednesday morning, this has had consequences for the inhabitants, namely “tinted water, or flow problems when the taps are opened “, corn the water remains drinkable, explains Constance de Pélichy, mayor of La Ferté Saint-Aubin. “When we restart the network, this generates a significant pressure and some concretions fixed on the pipes come off and flow with the tap water”, continues the elected.
The City recommends that residents of “check their boilers or household appliances (washing machine, dishwasher) which would have worked during the night, they could have faulted”.
There will be still brief cuts today in the city center, because in sectors where tinted water is observed, network purges will be carried out.
Firefighters, Veolia and city officials intervened all night to limit the inconvenience caused and allow a return to normal as soon as possible, says Constance de Pélichy: “we should have a return to normal in the hours to come”.
Rupture of a large pipeline Tuesday evening
“The incident is due to the rupture of a large water pipe on Tuesday evening around 7 p.m., on a private site (demolition of a large building). The teams intervened, but the network dates from the post-war period. there and one of the taps broke at the time of the operation in the evening, so we had to resolve to cut the entire supply network in the town “, explains Constance de Pélichy.