More than 35,000 dwellers of apartment buildings in the municipality of Balti hadn’t been supplied with water during two days following an accident on the Soroca – Balti underground water pipeline, IPN reports, quoting the Civil Protection and Emergencies Service. According to SA Apa-Canal Soroca, the supply of water was to be resumed in the evening of January 15.

The accident occurred on February 14. Rescuers created conditions for lighting the water pipeline so that the workers could weld the damaged pipe. As a result of the accident near Alexandrovca village of Floresti district, over 35,000 residents of Balti municipality remained without running water.

The leaking water flooded two cellars in Alexandrovca and damaged 0.4 km of local road. The rescuers pumped the water out of the cellars and provided the necessary assistance to the team of workers. The district emergencies commission is to determine the damage caused to the water supplier.

Contacted by IPN, Maria Spoiala, operator of SA Apa-Canal Soroca, said the repair works had lasted for two days and the supply of water was to be restored in the evening of January 15.