Nearly 140 neighborhoods in Puerto Vallarta will be without water beginning Monday, April 7, due to emergency repairs on a key water pipeline, according to Seapal Vallarta, the city’s water and sanitation utility. Service is expected to gradually return by Wednesday, April 9.
Seapal director Carlos Ruiz Hernández explained that the disruption was caused by a rupture in a 24-inch pipeline that connects a radial well to the San Francisco storage tank. Repair crews are already on-site and working to restore service as quickly as possible, with hopes of finishing sooner than projected.
The San Francisco tank, located on Cerro del Machete near Campestre Las Cañadas, has a capacity of 14,000 cubic meters. It receives water from a radial well and ten deep wells, distributing it to the Vallarta Surface Tank near Rancho del Pirulí. That tank supplies a wide area, extending from the Versalles neighborhood to Ixtapa.
Among the neighborhoods affected by the outage are El Coapinole, Las Mojoneras, El Crucero, Vallarta 500, Sendero de Luna, Las Gaviotas, Villa Las Flores, Versalles, Fluvial Vallarta, Marina Vallarta, Lomas del Calvario, and the North Hotel Zone, as well as dozens of others throughout the city.
Seapal is urging residents in affected areas to conserve water and stay informed through official updates as the repairs progress.
