Burst sewage pipe forces 2 eateries to close
AsiaOne
Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011
SINGAPORE - Two Plaza Singapura eateries were forced to close early last night after their premises were affected by a sewage pipe that burst.
An eyewitness who was on the ground floor of the shopping centre at the time of the incident said he was first alerted of the matter when he saw waste water gushing out of a pillar under the escalator, citizen journalism website Stomp reported.
As the water smelled putrid, he suspected it came from a sewage pipe that burst.
The eyewitness said he then went down to the basement and saw water gushing down from the false ceiling panels of the mall's basement level one and onto the stalls beside the escalators at basement level two.
"It was like a waterfall in the middle of the mall," the eyewitness said.
As a result, two food stalls at basement level two had to close early for the day.
Although only two food outlets were directly affected, diners at other eateries on the same floor were also affected by the stench, as the smell from the sewage water quickly spread throughout the entire floor.
The eyewitness said the leak remained unfixed for a couple of hours and was still there when he left the mall at around 10.30pm.
Earlier this year in September, Tangs Market in Orchard Road had to unexpectedly put a stop to its business after sewage water flooded the basement of Tangs Plaza.
The entire level had to be evacuated when a pipe burst in the afternoon during renovation work, but thousands of commuters using the Orchard MRT underpass were still left reeling from the stench that stretched all the way to the station control at Orchard MRT.
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AsiaOne
Tuesday, Nov 22, 2011
SINGAPORE - Two Plaza Singapura eateries were forced to close early last night after their premises were affected by a sewage pipe that burst.
An eyewitness who was on the ground floor of the shopping centre at the time of the incident said he was first alerted of the matter when he saw waste water gushing out of a pillar under the escalator, citizen journalism website Stomp reported.
As the water smelled putrid, he suspected it came from a sewage pipe that burst.
The eyewitness said he then went down to the basement and saw water gushing down from the false ceiling panels of the mall's basement level one and onto the stalls beside the escalators at basement level two.
"It was like a waterfall in the middle of the mall," the eyewitness said.
As a result, two food stalls at basement level two had to close early for the day.
Although only two food outlets were directly affected, diners at other eateries on the same floor were also affected by the stench, as the smell from the sewage water quickly spread throughout the entire floor.
The eyewitness said the leak remained unfixed for a couple of hours and was still there when he left the mall at around 10.30pm.
Earlier this year in September, Tangs Market in Orchard Road had to unexpectedly put a stop to its business after sewage water flooded the basement of Tangs Plaza.
The entire level had to be evacuated when a pipe burst in the afternoon during renovation work, but thousands of commuters using the Orchard MRT underpass were still left reeling from the stench that stretched all the way to the station control at Orchard MRT.
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If this happened in KL or BKK we'd all shake our heads, but this is happening in Spore. In the backyard of the world's best paid civil servants
