SINGAPORE – A water-pipe leak in Yishun caused flooding in the surrounding areas in the early hours of May 10, affecting about 25 shops in the Chong Pang neighbourhood.
The underground pipe is near the junction of Block 101 Yishun Avenue 5 and Sembawang Road and the leak occurred at around 1am, national water agency PUB said in a Facebook post at 9.43am.
It deployed a service crew to isolate the leak and repairs are ongoing.
“There is no disruption to water supply for homes and businesses in the area,” it added.
PUB is working with Nee Soon Town Council to carry out clean-up works in the affected areas, and is investigating the cause of the leak.
Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam, who is also an MP for Nee Soon GRC, told reporters that about 25 shops have been affected.
He added that officers from Nee Soon Town Council had been in the area since 2am.
“The cleaning up has taken some time because a substantive amount of water had come out,” he said.
Some shops have been affected more than others, he added. The owner of the furniture shop, for example, was worried that the products would be unusable if they had got wet and muddy.
