Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/15
By: Chiu Chun-chin and Kay Liu
Taipei, July 15 (CNA) Some 350,000 households in southern Taoyuan were without water Friday
(Photo courtesy of the Northern Region Water Resources Office)
after a major pipeline broke during a maintenance operation, Taiwan Water Corp. (TWC) said.
The accident occurred around noon at the Sankeng water pump station in Taoyuan’s Longtan District, where a new pump was being installed, the TWC said.
The new pump fell while it was being hoisted by a crane and smashed onto an 800-millimeter pipeline, rupturing it, according to the TWC.
To avoid flooding in the area, the Northern Region Water Resources Office ordered Shihmen Reservoir to shut off the water supply to the station for at least 24 hours, the TWC said. [FULL STORY]