Repairs to Hraunavík are taking longer

The fault that occurred over the weekend in the sewage pumps at the pumping and treatment station
The situation in Hafnarfjörður at Hraunavík is more serious than it appeared at first glance.
It has been necessary to order a part of her equipment, which proved to be faulty, from abroad.
supply in such a way that the repair will appear to take longer at first glance.

In the pump and the treatment plant in
Hraunavík usually has two cleaning pumps in use and one as a spare.
Treatment Plant 1 is currently operating at full capacity and treating sewage as usual.
Cleaning pump two is the one that broke down before the weekend, and we are waiting for a spare part.
into it to complete the repair. Cleaning pump 3, which is a backup station for the first two.
is inactive as a spare part is being manufactured for it by its manufacturer.
abroad. Therefore, it was not possible to activate it in the event of a failure of purifier number 2.
 before the weekend.

The single-stage pump runs like
Earlier, at full throttle, the second purge valve then takes everything that's in excess.
which can be up to 50%. The sewage that would normally be treated in it
now runs into the stream out in front of the treatment works, but not out of the pipes which
lie 2 kilometres out at sea, as stated in an earlier announcement today, and
before the weekend. The station is nevertheless located some distance from residential areas, so that
This should not cause significant inconvenience for residents. It is also right that
to note that the local authority's Environmental Health Service monitors progress and is
fully informed.

Apologies are requested that in a previous announcement it was stated
that the untreated sewage would go out through the pipe that the treated sewage goes through, which runs
2 km out to sea