Around 19.40 on Monday night came the alarm that something was wrong in the water tower in Luleå.
Soon it became clear that the background was a huge water leak.
– It is one of our absolute worst water mains, so there is quite a lot of water. It is a pretty nice little river out in the bay. The way that it passes below has been subverted, so we will also turn off, ” says Petra Viklund at Luleå municipality.
in Total around 5.000–6.000 cubic meters of water leaked out. It is about a quarter of the city’s dygnsförbrukning.
the leak was discovered, led the water. Households that are at high altitude is without water. And Viklund warns that when it comes in once again so it may initially be cloudy. Early in the night expect her work to turn off the water to the ruptured pipeline will be completed, and the work to prepare the is estimated to continue during the night, and possibly during Tuesday day.
– It is only to hope that it is right. The wiring is from the 1950s, it is not certain that we have the right stuff on the shelf so it can be repaired.
Despite everything, she feels that the work so far has gone well.
” It has been better than assumed, there is a stress test when a large pipe runs, leak.
