Freshwater delivered to cyclone-stricken Sakhalin town by tanker trucks.

YUZNNO-SAKHALINSK, October 7 (Itar-Tass) - Tanker trucks are
delivering freshwater to the population of Shaktryorsk, a town in the
Far-Eastern island of Sakhalin that was deprived of potable water supplies
from a local water intake facility on the night from October 3 to October
4.
The intake was filled with mudslides and clay from nearby hills as a
result of a powerful rainy cyclone.
Wednesday, water purification experts were still waiting for the clay
and dirt in the facility to settle down, after which the collection and
distribution of water would come back to normal.
As for this moment, the road tankers deliver water to social
facilities and organizations in the morning and to the housing sector, in
the night hours.
In the meantime, electric power supplies have been resumed to fifteen
residential houses where a total of 1,500 people live.
There are no restrictions on the supplies of electricity there, said
Shakhtyorsk deputy mayor Alexei Krupevsky.
Rainfall has raised the water level in a river crossing the
Shakhtyorsk area by a meter on the average and the stream was posing a
risk to a concrete bridge at a certain moment.
A total of 18 trucks were rushed to ensure emergency rescue works in
at the site. Rescue teams filled the mud holes around the supporting
pillars of the bridge with boulders and thus prevented the destruction of
this crucial transport installation.
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