GEORGE TOWN: The on-site diversion works to connect two new 600mm pipelines at Sungai Prai have been completed much earlier than scheduled.
The Penang Water Supply Corporation (PBAPP) said the new pipelines have been connected.
"The leaking underwater section of the pipeline on the riverbed has been disconnected.
"Pipeline testing and commissioning has started," it said this morning.
PBAPP said this would be followed up soon with efforts to recover water supply for 84 per cent of the 120,000 affected consumers ahead of schedule.
It was reported that some 120,000 consumers in the southwest district and part of the northeast district faced another round of water supply disruption from last night.
The latest water cut was to enable PBAPP to commission two new 600mm pipelines to replace the leaked Sungai Prai underwater pipeline under Plan B.
The leaked pipeline had been temporarily clamped under Plan A.
On Monday, Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow said physical works for Plan B would take 16 hours to complete, which was at 2pm today, after which water supply would normalise in stages.
It would take between 24 and 48 hours for the water supply to fully recover.