Recovery will take at least 3.5 months: Kaohsiung mayor恢復需要至少3.5個月：高雄市長

CNA
August 4, 2014, 12:04 am TWN

Chao Chien-chiao, the chief of the city's Maintenance Office, said his department will begin resurfacing Sanduo Road, the thoroughfare at the center of Thursday night's explosions which killed 28 and injured at least 300, according to government figures.
The restoration of the six kilometers-worth of roads destroyed by the gas explosions in Kaohsiung this past week will begin Monday, according to a city official on Sunday.

KAOHSIUNG--Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu said yesterday that restoration of neighborhoods damaged in the gas explosions last week will take at least three and a half months.

The city's New Construction Office will work on Yisin Road and the Water Resources Bureau will be responsible for Kaisyuan Road. Those badly damaged streets were in the roughly three-km perimeter of the blasts.

In addition to repaving the roads with asphalt, the restoration will also fix the damaged sidewalks, and replant trees along the roads which will cost about NT$600 million (US$19.98 million).

He said Thursday's explosions, caused by a propene leak from the underground pipelines running underneath the middle of those roads, had torn up the asphalt pavement along about 6 km of street.

Li Hsien-yi, the chief of the Water Resources Bureau, said the restoration of the rain water drainage system under the road will take three months and cost another NT$600 million.

The city government is seeking financial aid from the central government for the extensive repair work, he said.

In the meantime, the lack of a drainage system means the affected roads could turn into water-filled ditches during downpours, he warned.

Fortunately, the sewage system, which rests 10 meters underground, remained intact following the blasts, he said.

恢復需要至少3.5個月：高雄市長

中央社
2014年8月4日，上午12時04分TWN

高雄 - 高雄市長陳菊昨天表示，恢復街區上週在瓦斯爆炸事故損壞的，至少需要3個半月。

在6公里價值的道路由瓦斯爆炸摧毀的恢復在高雄過去的這個星期開始日，根據上週日一名市政官員。

晁笞摁樵，城市維護辦公室的主任說，他的部門將開始重鋪三多路，通途在週四晚上的爆炸炸死28人受傷，至少300為中心，根據政府的數字。

全市新增建設辦公室將致力於宜欣路和水利局負責凱旋大道。那些受損嚴重的街道均在爆炸的周長大約三公里。

除了重鋪瀝青的道路，恢復也將修復損壞的人行道，並補種沿著這將耗資約新台幣六億元（美國19980000美元）道路樹木。

他說，週四的爆炸，造成從這些道路的中間下方運行的地下管線中丙烯洩漏，已經撕毀了瀝青路面沿約6公里的街道中。

李賢義，水資源局局長表示，下路雨水排水系統的恢復需要三個月，費用另新台幣六億元。