Water supply disruptions tomorrow, Wednesday 5 March , in Sassari and surrounding towns. Enas, the Sardinian water board, has announced that urgent extraordinary maintenance work will be necessary along the Coghinas 2 aqueduct that supplies raw water to the Abbanoa water purification plants in Truncu Reale (serving Sassari, Porto Torres and Stintino), Castelsardo (also serving Tergu) and for about a month also the Pedra Majore water purification plant (serving Valledoria, Badesi, Santa Maria Coghinas, Viddalba and Trinità d'Agultu) normally supplied by another Enas line, “Coghinas 1”, currently undergoing maintenance work.
The districts of Sassari affected by the intervention and where there will be a lack of water are, as regards those supplied by Truncu Reale through the Monte Oro tank and pipeline: Centro Storico, Monte Rosello basso, Sacro Cuore, Latte Dolce, Santa Maria di Pisa, Porcellana and Piandanna where a supply closure will be carried out from 6 am on Wednesday to 6 am on Thursday; in the areas supplied by the Serra Secca Quota 300 tank only partially supplied by Truncu Reale (Luna e Sole, Prunizzedda and Monte Rosello Alto and Carbonazzi) night-time supply closures will be carried out on Wednesday 5 March from 6 pm to 6 am and Thursday 6 March from 11 pm to 6 am .
In the areas served by the Via Milano reservoir, fed by the Bidighinzu water purification plant with integration from Truncu Reale via the Ponte Rosello lifting station (Lu Fangazzu, San Paolo, San Giuseppe, Monserrato, Tingari, Monte Rosello medio, Sassari 2, Badde Pedrosa, Monte Furru Valle Gardona and Gioscari) there will be night-time shut-offs on Sunday 2 and Tuesday 4 March 2025 from 11pm to 6am the following day to accumulate as many supplies as possible in the reservoir, Wednesday 5 March 2025 from 4pm to 6am and Thursday 6 March from 11pm to 6am to replenish the levels after the interruption related to the Enas works.
As for Porto Torres, the supply will be shut off from 6am on Wednesday to 6am on Thursday . To avoid subsequent shut-offs, an intervention to improve the efficiency of the city water network has been scheduled for the same day, with the installation of new districting equipment. A further intervention to improve the efficiency will concern the Truncu Reale water purification plant.
