Vodokanal is not guilty for the pump stations being out-of-operation

On September 25, 2008 in the afternoon the inhabitants of Severniy district of Rostov-on-Don faced irregularities with the cold water supply. They started calling Vodokanal of Rostov-on-Don. The Rostovites were interested what had happened and why  Vodokanal switched off the water?

The city-dwellers’ fair indignation was to the wrong quarter. Rostov «Vodokanal» in that case was the injured party. 

The thing is that in the afternoon the water pipe pump station «Severniye rezervuary» was suddenly deenergized, which caused the water pumps stop. As a result the water supply to the people was disturbed. 

The reason of the event was easily found. As it turned out, when realizing earth works LLC SK «Vial» damaged the cable line, supplying the water pump station «Severniye rezervuary».

«Vodokanal» employees immediately started transferring the pump station to the reserve input. It took some time, since the protection was activated every time they tried to start the reserve input. The equipment examination proved that the reason for default was the breakdown of power transformer low-voltage winding because of the cable damage under load. After the cable lines were shifted in the evening at 18.45 the pump station was put into operation.

Unfortunately, such cases when citizens suffer from the lack of water supply, caused by organizations other than Vodokanal, are not unique. Another recent example. On September 11 this year in the afternoon two pump stations  «Yuzhnaya» and «Portovaya» were deenergized. As a result there was no water in he taps of the dwellers in Zapadniy district. It was the fault of LLC «Gorstroypodryadchik». When carrying out earth works at the intersection of the same 2-ya Krasnodarskaya and Truzhenikov streets LLC «Gorstroypodryadchik» damaged high-voltage cable lines and left the pump stations deenergized. After arriving the representatives of JSC «Vodokanal» together with representatives ZRES established and recorded the fact of the line damage. The water supply was provided in full only in the evening. 

Press-service JSC «Vodokanal Rostov-on-Don»

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