Kelaniya-Gampaha areas face reported 13.5-hour water cut on November 14
A planned water-supply interruption lasting 13 hours and 30 minutes has been reported for specified areas around Kelaniya and Gampaha on Saturday, November 14. The published schedule is 8:30am to 10pm Sri Lanka time. Reports attribute the notice to the National Water Supply and Drainage Board and say essential maintenance on the electricity supply serving the Biyagama Water Treatment Plant is the reason.
Areas named in the reports
The listed urban-council areas are Peliyagoda, Wattala-Mabola, Ja-Ela and Katunayake-Seeduwa. The reports also name the Kelaniya, Wattala, Biyagama, Mahara, Dompe and Ja-Ela Pradeshiya Sabha areas. Only parts of the Katana, Minuwangoda and Gampaha Pradeshiya Sabha areas are included. This is not a statement that every home in the entire Gampaha district will lose supply.
The distinction between a named local-authority area and only part of another area matters for residents checking their own address. The reviewed reports do not provide a street-by-street list or a map of affected connections. An address should not be assumed to be affected or unaffected merely because it is near one of the named towns.
The duration is 13.5 hours, not three
The start and end times span 13 hours and 30 minutes. The published report's headline refers to three hours, but its own body gives the longer duration and the 8:30am-10pm schedule. Full reports from published reporting give the same 13-hour-30-minute period for Saturday, November 14. This report uses that consistent timetable rather than the conflicting headline. All times here refer to Sri Lanka, not Sydney.
What residents have been asked to do
The reports say the Board asked people in affected areas to store sufficient water in advance and use it sparingly during the interruption. The official Board website lists 1939 as its hotline, and the published report gives that number for further information. Residents needing confirmation about their particular connection should check the Board's latest notice or contact it directly. The announced end time is a planned schedule, not a guarantee that every connection will have full pressure at exactly 10pm.
Verification and limits
The full published reporting reports were checked again before publication, alongside the published report's November 12 report. The Board's public-notice and interruption pages were also checked, but the accessible content did not expose the dated notice for this particular event. The schedule is therefore reported as attributed to the Board in those news reports, not as independently authenticated from an original event notice. No revised timetable or completed maintenance was verified. The photograph is a general outdoor-faucet illustration taken outside Sri Lanka, not the Biyagama plant, a local damaged pipe or proof that an actual household has lost supply.
The published report
The published report