School lunches were also caught in the school as caterpillars were recently discovered in the tap water area of ​​Seo-gu, Incheon, which was damaged by the red water accident last year.

Incheon Metropolitan City Office of Education announced that it will stop feeding kindergartens and elementary, middle and high schools in Wanggil-dong, Dangha-dong, Wondang-dong, Geomam-dong, and Majeon-dong in Seo-gu starting today (14th).

This area was the place where the residents' reports of "I see larvae in tap water" were received from 9th of this month to yesterday.

The City Office of Education stopped all food and tap water in these schools, and made alternative meals available.

Incheon Metropolitan Superintendent Do Sung-hoon will visit the local school in Seo-gu and check the damage situation, and are reviewing additional countermeasures with the Incheon Metropolitan City, the Western Education Support Office, and the Seo-gu Office.

An official from the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education explained, "The local schools were guided to provide alternative meals or shortened classes."

Earlier, from the 9th of this month to yesterday, 12 reports were received at the Waterworks Division of the City Waterworks Division at Dangha-dong and Wondang-dong in Seo-gu.

The Waterworks Headquarters estimates that the larvae found this time are the types that occur in places where there is debris, such as water tanks or sinks, when the temperature rises in summer, but the cause has not been identified.

The city urges the government to refrain from drinking tap water directly against 2,262,262 households such as Wanggil-dong (7,845 households), Dangha-dong (1,5,999 households), and Wondang-dong (4,418 households), which are areas where larvae are reported. I did.

In addition, we plan to support Mitsu Hall Water, a bottled tap water, for households where larvae are found and cannot drink tap water.

Seo-gu, Incheon, was the area where the red tap water first occurred in May of last year and suffered great damage.

At the time, it was estimated that the red tap water flowed into each household as the sediment inside the water pipes dropped while the water pressure in the existing pipeline was excessively increased during the water system conversion process.

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