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Colombia - Authorities may declare a red alert for oil spill affecting water supply to Cucuta
Authorities could declare a red alert for oil spill near Cucuta
By: Efe
Electronic translation - Google
The city maintains water service suspended after the rupture of a tube of Ecopetrol, which gave a landslide caused by heavy rains that has polluted the river Pamplonita.
Colprensa
The oil spilled by the breaking of the Cano Limon-Covenas first polluted waters of the Iscala creek and then Pamplonita River near the outlet of the aqueduct of the city, said a source from the supplier.
City officials are studying the declaration of red alert in the city, capital of Norte de Santander and about 75,000 inhabitants, while technical Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos (Ecopetrol) try to control the spill, which began Sunday.
The source of the Water and Sewer Division of Industrial and Commercial Cucuta confirmed by telephone that was enacted water rationing because the Pamplonita is the main source of water supply in the city.
According to authorities, water service could be restored within two weeks.
Heavy rains affecting Colombia since early September have caused landslides and floods that have caused so far 141 dead, nearly half a million homeless and extensive damage to roads, bridges and aqueducts.
C?cuta (Norte de Santander)
Efe | Noticiascaracol.com
City of Cucuta
Hydrography of Cucuta and North Santander
By: Efe
Electronic translation - Google
The city maintains water service suspended after the rupture of a tube of Ecopetrol, which gave a landslide caused by heavy rains that has polluted the river Pamplonita.
Colprensa
The oil spilled by the breaking of the Cano Limon-Covenas first polluted waters of the Iscala creek and then Pamplonita River near the outlet of the aqueduct of the city, said a source from the supplier.
City officials are studying the declaration of red alert in the city, capital of Norte de Santander and about 75,000 inhabitants, while technical Empresa Colombiana de Petroleos (Ecopetrol) try to control the spill, which began Sunday.
The source of the Water and Sewer Division of Industrial and Commercial Cucuta confirmed by telephone that was enacted water rationing because the Pamplonita is the main source of water supply in the city.
According to authorities, water service could be restored within two weeks.
Heavy rains affecting Colombia since early September have caused landslides and floods that have caused so far 141 dead, nearly half a million homeless and extensive damage to roads, bridges and aqueducts.
C?cuta (Norte de Santander)
Efe | Noticiascaracol.com
City of Cucuta
Hydrography of Cucuta and North Santander
