Monday, May 6, 2024
According to a series of data that emerge from the records of complaints and also information provided by sources close to the Litoral Gas company, this brand new criminal practice has sustained a worrying “growing” trend for a long time.
“The theft figures are very important,” they said, and although the numbers are frightening, the theft of meters has grown by nearly 500 percent in Pergamino in the last 24 months.
In the last few hours, at least five homes were left without supply practically at the same time as the arrival of the first cold days of the year. Homes in the Acevedo, Viajantes, Villa Progreso and Centenario neighborhoods suffered breakage or theft of meters these days.
Day and night
“One normal day you return home, you want to turn on the stove and you realize that there is no gas coming out. You look at the gas meter and see that something is missing. The cutoff valve and a copper pipe that connects the meter to the gas network are no longer there,” said Vanesa, a resident of the Viajantes neighborhood.
“Thieves, criminals, lazy people, squirts, call them what you want, they are the ones who in a matter of seconds open the meter door and by taking a 20 or 30 centimeter copper hose they leave you without gas,” said Marcelo from the Acevedo neighborhood. who, along with his wife and a small seven-month-old daughter, suffered what it is like to run out of gas in the fall.
More than 100 thousand
The cost of the gas regulator in businesses in Pergamin costs more than 100 thousand pesos, not to mention what the registered gas supplier then charges, which one must individually call to install it.
Telephone contact
The user will have to call 0800-777-5427 and a crew from the Litoral Gas company will arrive at that address to assist the victim. Subsequently, a licensed installer works, because only these professionals can act on the natural gas connections and by replacing what was stolen, the process begins to restore the service, which in some cases takes between 48 or 72 hours.
The service provider company with commercial headquarters on Merced Street works very well and is willing to “help” the victims and can solve the problems as soon as possible.
