DEYAK claims pumps are available for Central Corfu
CORFU. An investigation is underway to determine whether the water supply cuts are due to a leak in the system.
On Monday morning, DEYAK engineers went to the Central Corfu area to verify the situation following complaints made by residents to Enimerosi over the weekend. They will return on Tuesday, in search of a possible fault in the water distribution network.
This comes as they maintain that any problems with the water supply to parts of the villages in the area are not due to poor operation of the pumping station and therefore do not require a pump replacement.
Sources from DEYAK’s management attribute the commotion to exaggerated fears among some residents and community representatives regarding the allocation of water to villages supplied by the same sources. They nevertheless insist that there has never been an issue of pump or network equipment adequacy due to the dissolution of the inter-municipal utility. “There are pumps,” they replied to Enimerosi, adding that even if there were not, they could be procured immediately through expedited procedures.
Residents had contacted Enimerosi, reporting water supply cuts for at least a week in Kalafationes, Varipatades, Kouramades, and Sinarades. According to their accounts, half of each village has water while the other half does not. The partial nature of the outage is explained by the fact that the villages of Central Corfu receive water from at least three pumping stations. Only one of them—the Agios Andreas station—is not operating.
GIORGOS KATSAITIS
