Mendoza Waters (Aysam) announced that this Saturday, May 25, a massive water cut scheduled service that will affect Greater Mendoza, due to the operation to place an electromagnetic flowmeter in Luján de Cuyo.
The work will cause the interruption of service throughout the day in the following locations: Lujan (La Puntilla and Carrodilla), Godoy Cruz (Sarmiento, Benegas, Las Tortugas, San Francisco del Monte), City (in Sections 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and the Favorite), Las Heras (central, western and northern zone), Guaymallen (Dorrego, Las Cañas, Villa Nueva, San José, Pedro Molina, Jesús Nazareno, Rodeo de la Cruz and Km11) and Maipu (Coquimbito).
The tasks will be executed by operational personnel of Aysam with the support of the contractor company. The work of cutting the aqueduct and installing the flow meter will begin at 4. They maintain that they will be carried out progressively and are included in the framework of the optimization project of the current macro-distribution system of the Metropolitan Area.
The president of Aysam, Humberto Mingorancestated that “the work is already coordinated, all the materials and personnel are already available to start on Saturday as early as possible to be able to complete this task during the afternoon.”
Furthermore, he assured that “they are not repair works”, but rather that they are “new works in what is called primary distribution and macro distribution for the entire metropolitan area, where in the past they were done in an analog or manual manner. This is not “It will only allow us to efficiently distribute the resource throughout the metropolitan area and remotely, but also what is being installed is a flow meter that will allow us to measure the volume of water that we are distributing throughout that area.” .
Regarding the objectives that they seek to fulfill with the realization of this new work, he explained: “Since I have been in Aysam, there was no history of macro or micro measurement works, it is something that is being promoted by a question of water crisis. We want to know exactly how much water we are producing, how much we are distributing throughout the network and, ultimately, with what is micro measurement, what is being done with the 20,000 meters in the Guaymallén area, to know how much the people of Mendoza spend and for this reason they pay what corresponds according to their consumption. “It is very important to be able to make decisions and have data.”
The head of Aguas Mendocinas specified the disbursement that will have to be made for the operation: It is an important investment since not only is this point, which is something of 350,000 dollars, but the entire work as a whole is more than 5 million dollars that They are being invested with provincial funds. He’s obviously running it. Aysam to be able to optimize the network and optimize the resource”.
Aysam’s recommendations
Humberto Mingorance He pointed out that the impact “is very important” and gave a series of tips to keep in mind during the mega water outage:
- Reserve water in the days following this work, that is, on Thursdays and Fridays.
- Store water in drums in disposable containers.
- Maintain both tank and cistern reserves to the maximum, do not consume it during the day and consume the minimum necessary to have water for human consumption.
- Plan to wash what needs to be washed in the previous days.
- On Saturday it is recommended: do not water gardens, avoid using the hose to water gardens or wash cars and leave the water stored for as long as possible for at least the ten hours the implementation will last.
