Water outage: Phuket homes brace for supply disruption

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A significant water supply outage is set to disrupt homes and businesses situated on Chao Fa East Road in Chalong and in the Cape Panwa area in Phuket. This announcement made by the Phuket branch of the Provincial Waterworks Authority (PWA) outlines the outage scheduled for tomorrow.

 

The disruption, stretching from the Thai Watsadu Chalong branch to Soi Palai, is expected to start at 9am and continue until the completion of necessary work. The PWA attributed the outage to the installation of a 315-milimetre High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) pipe. It warned that the disruption would result in significantly reduced water supply pressure, potentially leading to a complete absence of running water.

 

In addition to this, the PWA also revealed plans for a water supply outage in the Cape Panwa area on the same day. This interruption, also starting at 9am, will continue until the completion of works which involves the installation of a 255mm HDPE pipe at the Ngao Phad intersection. This outage is expected to impact the Ao Yon region and the area surrounding ‘Thai Sarco Hill.’

 

by Mitch Connor

Photo courtesy of Deaan Vivier.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/phuket/phuket-homes-brace-for-water-supply-outage-due-to-pipe-works

 

-- Thaiger 2023-08-23

 

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[VocalNeal]

According to my research it is is about 400m. Hardly news worthy, just routine maintenance.???? I don't think anyone needs to brace.

 

 

Edited August 23, 2023 by VocalNeal

[dingdongrb]

We've experienced a few days in the last couple of weeks where water service was disrupted. We've always been given fair notice and it was always identified as being off from 9am until 5pm.

 

If they said 'until the completion'  that would definitiely worry me as I know how slowly Thais can work at times.