Malfunction at La Plata Dam leaves 24,000 subscribers without water

A broken pump at the La Plata reservoir has cut raw water flow to the Enrique Ortega filtration plant, forcing officials to delay a repair timeline while residents in San Juan and surrounding areas face low pressure.

Sam Calloway

General Desk

Share on X

Stands on 4 placed sources from 2 publishers.

José Rivera Ortiz, executive director of the San Juan Metropolitan Region of the Water and Sewerage Authority, stated on Friday that he cannot establish a repair timeline for one of the four extraction pumps at the La Plata reservoir.^[1]