Must boil drinking water in Porsgrunn after leakage – NRK

The cause of the leak is a water pipe that has gone to pieces. Several houses standing water far up the wall of the house.

The reason is gone

The ground under a porch is gone. There is a river running through several gardens and floating garden furniture around in what looks like a large pool.

Petter Berntsen, who is resident in the area, has lost much of his garden.

– You are all ruined, he says to NRK as he shows off the devastation of water.

Brevik, Eidanger, Heistad and Skjelsvik reported to be partially without water.

– There is a premoledning, which is made of concrete, which are broken. When the cracks comes an enormous amount of water, says Ole Helge Dagsrud, project manager at the municipal center in Porsgrunn municipality, told NRK.

Top water main in Porsgrunn

This is the largest aqueduct in Porsgrunn, and the mains plug to Brevik.

Helge Dagsrud says that all Porsgrunn is affected, either by pressure drop or loss of water.

– We follow the emergency plan to the municipality, and has focused on nursing homes and institutions, he said.

the water is now switched over, and about four or five hours should be fine for most.

Meanwhile local authorities recommend everyone to boil water, until the new message about clean bill comes in the morning.

– This applies to everyone from the center of Porsgrunn, through Eidanger Peninsula all the way to Brevik says Helge Dagsrud.

20 to 30 houses affected

A few of the houses are very damaged by the leak, and likely considered uninhabitable in a while.

Emergency in Porsgrunn, Fred Inge Skjærun, says that 20-30 houses are affected.

– A few houses are evacuated, said Skjærun.

There were 110 Telemark which reported the large water leak on Twitter.

Large parts of southern Porsgrunn lost water due to leakage on Skjelsvik.

Photo: Anne Lognvik / NRK

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