The bacterium Clostridium perfringers has been identified again in the water supply of Curtea de Arges, according to a release sent on Friday by the Arges Public Health Directorate (DSP).
The bacterium was found in two water samples collected on February 17, one from the outlet of the Cerbureni treatment plant and another from an educational unit in the municipality of Curtea de Arges.
"Considering the above, we inform you that the water is not intended for human consumption and can only be used for household purposes! We recommend that the water not be used for: drinking, preparing food, brushing teeth, hygiene of newborns", warns Arges DSP.
The institution recalls that local authorities provide drinking water tanks to the population, and there are also two alternative public sources of drinking water - the Pod Progresul spring and the well in the courtyard of the Curtea de Arges Monastery. Also, the Municipal Hospital is still supplied with water brought by firefighters from Mioveni, the supply from the public network being interrupted.
In previous samples, taken on February 13, no bacteria had been identified in the water supply but the turbidity and iron and chlorine concentrations were above the permitted limits. The samples had been collected after the water supply was stopped in the municipality of Curtea de Arges and several communes for over 24 hours, for works at the treatment plant in Cerbureni.
The Arges County Emergency Committee (CJSU) decided, at the beginning of last week, to establish a 30-day state of alert in the municipality of Curtea de Arges, after the detection of the Clostridium perfringers bacteria in the water supply.
The prefect of Arges County, Ioana Facaleata, stated at that time that a decision was also adopted by the Curtea de Arges Local Emergency Committee, through which the local authorities, following an assessment carried out together with an authorized company, drew up a plan for the safe resumption of the drinking water supply and requested emergency funds from the Government for the necessary works and investments.
Arges DSP had previously announced that the presence of the bacterium Clostridium perfringers was detected in water samples collected on February 6 from three consumption points in the municipality of Curtea de Arges.
As a result of the increase in turbidity, in the context of controlled discharges from the Vidraru reservoir, the water supply serving the municipality of Curtea de Arges and the communes of Valea Danului, Valea Iasului and Baiculesti, with a total population of approximately 40,000 inhabitants, is no longer drinkable from the beginning of November 2025.
The Aquaterm company informed, as early as November 10, that the turbidity of the raw water in the Oesti canal, where the water intakes are located, was much higher than the filtration capacity of the Cerbureni Treatment Plant.
In recent months, Hidroelectrica has carried out a series of controlled discharges from the Vidraru reservoir on the Arges River, necessary to ensure the technical conditions for carrying out the work of renovating the hydropower facility.
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