Nearly 3,000 households and 34 shopping centre tenants in a northern Hong Kong district were left without fresh water during one of the most important family-gathering festivals, as the water authority apologised and rushed to restore supply.
The Water Supplies Department said the fresh water supply to On Shing Court, Tin Ping Shopping Centre, and the Tin Long, Tin Mei and Tin Hee houses of Tin Ping Estate in Sheung Shui was suspended on Sunday afternoon due to a leak in a 400mm-diameter fresh water pipe on San Wan Road.
The department added that the supply to Luen Wo Hui, a market town east of Fanling, and Tsui Lai Garden, a Home Ownership Scheme estate in Sheung Shui with 2,012 flats in six blocks, would experience weak water flow as water supply was diverted for repairs.
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“The department’s engineering team is fully committed to carrying out water pipe repairs and will resume fresh water supply and reopen the affected cycling track as soon as possible,” the department said in a social media post on Sunday.
“Affected by the accident, a section of the cycling track on So Kwun Po Road must be temporarily closed to facilitate emergency water pipe repair works. Road traffic on San Wan Road is not affected.”
The department said staff had been dispatched to the scene immediately after receiving the report to follow up on the incident.