On the 3rd of this month in Wakayama City, a water bridge collapsed, and on the 6th, the 4th day after the outbreak, about 60,000 households continued to lose water. We have started emergency restoration work to install.
If the construction goes smoothly, the water outage is expected to be resolved on the 9th of this month.
On the 3rd of this month, a part of the aqueduct bridge over the "Kinokawa" in Wakayama City collapsed, and in the northern part of the city, nearly 40% of the city, about 60,000 households, are still out of water. increase.
As an emergency restoration method, Wakayama City plans to install a temporary water pipe on the prefectural road bridge that runs parallel to the east side of the water pipe bridge and circulate the water supply route. started.
The construction will close the bridge on the prefectural road, which is about 475 meters long, and then connect about 100 water pipes, which are 6 meters long and 70 cm in diameter, to create a water supply route on the road.
At the bridge at the site, work was carried out to bring in water pipes by truck and unload them on the bridge by mobile crane.
Masahiro Obana, the mayor of Wakayama City, who visited the site, said, "We apologize for the inconvenience caused to the citizens due to the water outage.
The construction will be carried out 24 hours a day, and if all goes well, water supply to houses that are out of water will be resumed from midnight on the 8th, and it is expected that the water outage will be resolved in the entire area in the early morning of the 9th of this month.