From Wednesday, tanker water will be provided in Szigetvár because the quality of the piped drinking water has become objectionable, Baranya-Víz Zrt., which operates the local water utilities, announced to MTI on Tuesday.
Last Friday, Péter Vass (Szigetvárért Tisztességöl Egyesület), the mayor of Szigetvár, informed the population on the city's official website that the piped drinking water supplied in the settlement is "yellowish-brown in color, has an unpleasant smell, and is neither suitable for cooking nor drinking" . He also announced that in order to end the "untenable situation", he contacted "people in decision-making positions and responsible positions".
Baranya-Víz Zrt. informed MTI on Tuesday that in the supply area of a water treatment plant serving 2,000 households, which was built as part of a recent HUF 1.3 billion drinking water quality improvement program and is currently undergoing trial operation, "consumers can experience secondary deterioration of water quality". The iron content in the tested water samples was multiple times the limit values prescribed in the decrees in certain locations, while the number of iron bacteria in the drinking water samples taken several times in the apartment buildings exceeded the limit value according to the government decree, they wrote.
It was noted that not all households experience water quality deterioration. The complaints came mainly from people living in properties equipped with iron and steel pipelines, from the western part of Szigetvár, while no deterioration of water quality was experienced in the schools and kindergartens operating in the supply areas. They pointed out that "secondary deterioration of water quality caused by iron bacteria does not pose a threat to health, but can cause unpleasant odors and clog pipes."
According to the information, the problems have been reported several times to the contractor of the investment, Szabadics Építőipari Zrt. from Nagykanizsa, but the interventions carried out so far, involving the washing of the lines, have not yet led to results. It was announced that the trial operation of the water plant implemented as part of the development is currently taking place, and it can only be completed successfully if the parameters and quality of the supplied drinking water are in accordance with the standard. It was highlighted: Baranya-Víz Zrt., as the operator, will do everything possible with its available tools and human resources to restore water quality, in the meantime - in cooperation with the municipality - it will provide water supply by tanker truck in the settlement from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day from Wednesday.
Source: MTI
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Civilek.info:
We don't want to make fun of you, but it's not for nothing that we managed to build a modern, new, "water quality-improving" water plant for 1.3 billion, with the help of which (for now) the water really isn't undrinkable everywhere. A little dirty, a little smelly, but ours! Or it will be if the test operation ends up with the plant still producing potable water.
It is not clear how we have not managed to find the source of the problem, but since we do not have a water expert, we have to believe that everything was done according to the regulations, but that dirty water just does not want to be cleaned, on the contrary! There must be a technical explanation for it, and they will find it soon. However, we do not understand what "secondary water quality deterioration" is. If it's only secondary, how can it be primary? Or is it like the stork of the barman Andrey Fokich in Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita? Which is known to be of "secondary freshness" That is, it stinks?
