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The Sendai City Sanitary Works Bureau expects an outbreak on the 17th in some areas due to the entry of oil that appears to be kerosene into the Okura River in Aoba district and the suspension of the water intake at the hydraulic works of Kunimi and Nakahara in the same district. However, it announced that it had avoided water outages. In the cities of Shiogama and Tagajo in Miyagi prefecture, a total of 19,200 households remained isolated on the morning of the 17th and an emergency water supply station was opened in the city.
According to the Sendai City Sanitary Works Bureau, the oil was adsorbed on the mat and was removed between the Okura Dam and the Okura River intake on the afternoon of the 16th, and after confirming that there was no unpleasant odor in the take, the water intake was resumed. Nakahara Water Purification Plant completed facility cleaning and water quality safety confirmation, and began supplying at 11:00 pm.
Avoid water cuts from 0 to 8 am on the 17th, which is expected for a total of 18,600 households in Kamiayashi, Kuryu, Ochiai, Taihaku Ward, Akiumachi Baba, etc. Emergency water supply stations were opened in 6 locations, including Kuryu Seibu Park No. 3, but their use was low. A man in his 70s near the park was relieved that the water supply was as usual.
Water intake has already been resumed at the Kunimi Water Purification Plant, with the aim of restoring it by the end of the 17th. The tap water supply will be served by accommodating other water treatment plants in the city, and there will be no impact.
Shiogama City, which draws water from the Okura River through the Kunimi Water Purification Plant, also resumed the flow of water to the Umenomiya Water Purification Plant in the city around 5:30 a.m. Initially, the water cut was expected to be close to 90% for around 21,000 households, but the amount of water received from the Miyagi Prefecture wide-area water supply increased, and the final number was about 16,600. Aim for recovery within the 17th.
The city started emergency water supply at 15 locations in the city at 7:00 am. Hiroki Hayasaka, a 50-year-old employee of the group who visited Suginoiri’s water supply station, hoped it would be helpful if he could recover in time for dinner and a bath.
The city of Tagajo, which receives water from the city of Shiogama, also continued to lose water in some 2,600 households. The city installed water stations at nine locations in the city at 8:30 am.
