Breakdown in Czajka does not affect quality of water supplied to Warsaw residents
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The failure does not affect the quality of water supplied to the inhabitants of Warsaw, because the water intakes for the city are located under the bottom of the Vistula River and are located 10 km above the place of sewage discharge into the river, informed MPWiK in a statement issued on Saturday, referring to the failure at the Warsaw sewage treatment plant Czajka .
On Saturday, August 29, 2020, there was a serious failure of the system transferring sewage from the left-bank part of Warsaw to the Czajka sewage treatment plant. To ensure safe collection of sewage from city residents, the company launched an emergency discharge of untreated sewage to the Vistula River.
As it was stated, "state services were notified of the failure".
"In order to minimize the effects of the discharge, we launched the ozone treatment of wastewater. We established a crisis management team for the company. Its task is to work out a method of repairing as quickly as possible and ensuring safe transport of wastewater," MPWiK reported.
Earlier, Rafał Trzaskowski, the Mayor of Warsaw, informed about the failure. In turn, the deputy head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Maciej Wąsik, wrote on Twitter that Warsaw discharges sewage into the Vistula again.
The previous failure of the transmission system supplying sewage to the Czajka sewage treatment plant took place a year ago. As a result, the waste was dumped into the Vistula River.
