The break in the outer pipeline is causing more disruption than expected in Nuoro during the hottest days of the year.
This morning, Abbanoa announced a " reduction of approximately 40 liters per second in the flow arriving at the city's tanks . This reduction is not allowing us to recover the desired levels to ensure regular supply: the reopening of the service to users has been postponed until around 9 a.m. The operators are carrying out checks to determine the cause of the anomaly." The post, published on Facebook, is accompanied by anger from many citizens.
Yesterday at 4:00 PM, the thermometer in the heart of Nuoro still read 41 degrees Celsius. The oppressive heat transformed every inconvenience into an emergency, especially when the pressure from the taps in many homes began to drop, to the point of causing water shortages in some cases, especially on the upper floors of buildings.
On one of the hottest days of the summer, the city once again found itself facing the nightmare of a water crisis. But this time, it wasn't the lack of a water supply, but rather the collapse of a section of the pipeline that was causing the problem.
Protests erupted rapidly on social media yesterday, with exasperated residents, struggling families, and businesses in the city's higher-ups struggling with supply problems during peak consumption hours.
The situation worsened after the second break in just 24 hours of the breakwater of the Janne and Ferru aqueduct, which supplies the reservoirs in Nuoro and Mamoiada, which had already burst on Thursday morning. Abbanoa had managed to repair the damage that morning and, thanks to the reserves in the reservoirs, had avoided the water outage.
But the new failure, in a different section than the previous one, forced technicians to replace six meters of steel pipe. This time, the damage proved more serious: several meters of pipe collapsed overnight, forcing operators to intervene again urgently. The risk is a new round of cascading disruptions in a city already strained by the extreme heat.
Abbanoa announced that technicians restored the pipeline this afternoon. However, supply was guaranteed until the available reserves in the tanks were exhausted, as they rapidly depleted. The situation led to the decision everyone feared: the overnight closure of the Biscollai, Cuccullio, Sant'Onofrio, Murrone, and Cuccuru Nigheddu reservoirs, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., to allow reserve levels to recover.
This morning the new communication, the city is dry again.
