Compensation for poor water in Prague 6 is seeking over five thousand people
Prague Water Supply and Sewerage (PVK) already registers 5384 claims for compensation due to contaminated water in Prague 6. Most of them are complete and contain all the requisites, confirmed PVK spokesman Tomáš Mrázek. Defective water got into the water supply system at the end of May and found a number of over 4,000 people, without water there were about 32,000 people. The commission set up by the Prague Water Management Company (PVS) came to the conclusion that the age of the network and poor water supply and sewerage management could be responsible for the accident.
To date, the company has sent 3869 requests to the insurance company out of a total of 4850, which include all the details, the spokesman confirmed. Of the total amount, 2307 were paid out for 12 million crowns. Waterworks refused to accept only a few dozen applications.
The commission of PVS, which owns Prague, performed a mathematical model and a real simulation of the accident contamination. “The reason has objective reasons – the age of the network and poor technical installation of water supply and sewerage, when the principles that sewerage must always be at the bottom were violated,” said Petr Žejdlík, chairman of the PVS board of directors, at Tuesday’s press conference. According to Žejdlík, PVK, which leases the water supply network, was not able to detect this problem in advance, as there is a lack of documentation for the management.
PVK promised to take precautionary measures. He is now looking for water testing technology that will reduce the waiting time for test results. He is also said to treat all places where documentation is missing in advance as risky. At the end of May, 32,000 people, specifically 1,300 customers, had been without water in Dejvice and Bubeneč. Of the total network in this area of 42.5 kilometers, 11 kilometers of pipelines have been repaired so far. The epidemic affected 4,400 inhabitants.