The City of Port Alberni estimates that its water system will be fully operational again on Friday evening, about one day after a vehicle crash caused significant damage to it.
On Thursday, an unloaded logging truck contracted to Mosaic Forest Management crashed into the city's main waterline, damaging about 10 metres of pipe.
He says the vast majority of the waterline that was damaged is underground. However, the portion that was damaged is located above ground over a ravine. "[The barriers] should have deflected a truck as well, so we're investigating how this could have happened.""This 60-year-old pipe, you'd expect it to last 80 to 100 years, so this isn't anything imminently that we should have repaired or replaced, it's just doing its job," he said.Port Alberni Mayor Sharie Minions says she's grateful to the community for its efforts conserving water.
Minions stressed that the water that's still running through the system was not impacted by the crash and that it's still safe to drink and use.
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