The people of Ober- and Unterschleißheim are supplied with water again.
The pumps have been running again since last night.
Oberschleißheim / Unterschleißheim
- The people of Ober- and Unterschleißheim are supplied with water again.
The pumps have been running again since last night.
However, troubleshooting continues in the waterworks.
It is currently still recommended to boil tap water before drinking or brushing your teeth.
The tap water should not be used to prepare baby food for the time being.
The health department has taken water samples and is currently checking the water quality.
No drinking water, no shower, no toilet flush.
42,000 people in Ober- and Unterschleißheim had no water for a short time on Saturday evening and for hours from Sunday to Monday.
For an as yet unexplained cause, the power failure occurred shortly after 7 p.m. at the Ober- and Unterschleißheim waterworks, probably due to a lightning strike.
The pumps stopped working.
At around 00:30 on Monday morning, the water supply was secured again.
This morning the fire brigade drove through Oberschleissheim with loudspeakers and warned the citizens not to boil the tap water before drinking it.
The Oberschleißheim fire brigade distributed water bottles in the kindergartens and crèches.
Crisis team meets in the waterworks
Hundreds of responses were received in the night at the waterworks in the Berglwald, where the crisis team had met.
The fire brigades of the two municipalities, the health department, THW, BRK and the heads of the public order offices of the affected municipalities rushed to the waterworks, which is in the forest between Ober- and Unterschleißheim on the Unterschleißheim side.
The two mayors and association chairmen were also on site and part of the crisis team, which led the operation and communication.
FFW commander: "The situation has been dramatic for a long time"
"For a long time the situation was dramatic because it was not clear whether it would be possible to restore the water supply," says Unterschleißheim's commander Markus Brandstetter.
He was on site with 16 emergency services and was on duty until 2 a.m.
The helpers provided lighting with the emergency power generator from the Unterschleißheim fire brigade, so that the technicians could tackle the repairs and the crisis team could also start work.
The technicians of the waterworks, together with the employees of the water association, were ultimately able to restore the necessary switching on the medium voltage level and thus the continued operation of the water supply from around one o'clock at night.
An employee of the external company that maintains the waterworks hurried to Unterschleißheim that night.
Livestock of the veterinary medicine of the LMU were supplied with water
Among the many callers who answered the waterworks was the operations manager of the veterinary institute at Munich's Ludwig Maximilian University.
He asked for help because the animals had to be watered in the stables.
The Oberschleißheim fire brigade fetched fresh water from the Helmholzzentrum in Neuherberg, which receives its water from the state capital of Munich, and organized the water supply for the livestock.
The crisis team continued to plan ahead
In the event that the water supply had been interrupted for a long time, the crisis team had drawn up a plan: trucks would have distributed water supplies from the primary school in Hochbrück and via the beverage company Orterer to the population at various distribution points.
In Unterschleißheim, the crisis management team planned to use the business campus as an issuing point, "because the trucks can turn around easily there," explains Brandstetter.
In Oberschleißheim, the BRK would have distributed water supplies at the festival area and at the fire brigade equipment house.
“It would have been a great situation if it hadn't been possible to get the pumps going,” says Brandstetter.
"The preliminary planning for this scenario was in progress, the THW could have built up a longer drinking water supply."
The population encourages the helpers with "thumbs up"
Meanwhile, Mayor Christoph Böck kept the population up to date on the situation via social media. On Monday morning, when the Oberschleißheim fire brigade drove through the village and recommended over loudspeakers that the tap water be boiled for the time being, the helpers received many positive reactions from the population: "We only saw 'thumbs up'", says fire brigade commander Wolfgang Schnell.
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