More than 180,000 customers will be without water because of coordinated AAA and LUMA work

On July 7, 2026, Ey Boricua reports, citing EFE, that more than 180,000 potable-water customers in San Juan, Trujillo Alto, Carolina, and Loíza will be affected that Tuesday by a temporary interruption tied to a maintenance plan in the Metropolitan Region. The dek places the work at the Carraízo dam, the Sergio Cuevas Filter Plant, and the distribution network, taking advantage of a scheduled dam outage for LUMA Energy electrical work.

AAA executive president Luis R. González Delgado said the coordination makes it possible to advance multiple projects during a single interruption. "This coordination with LUMA gives us a unique opportunity to advance work that, in other circumstances, would have to be done individually, causing multiple service interruptions for our customers," he said. The aim, he added, is to complete as many improvements as possible for thousands of families in the Metropolitan Region. That is his justification, published on the day of the work.

On July 6, NotiCel had announced that same plan: 12 hours of AAA work from 6:00 a.m., about 1,000 LUMA customers on transmission line 3100 between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., and more than 180,000 water customers. The announcement and the day itself are two dates. They are not collapsed. On the same July 7, Metro covered OE-2026-032, which declares an emergency in Canóvanas and Río Grande and does not include Loíza in the Department of State document. Loíza is on Ey Boricua's metro-customer list. Two maps, two URLs.

This scheduled cutoff is not the 48-hour rationing at Guzmán Arriba, which NotiCel dated July 6 for other communities in the east. Metro maintenance and drought rationing are two calendars. The reader who wants Tuesday's chronicle has the Ey Boricua URL at the foot.

Source: Ey Boricua. https://eyboricua.com/mas-de-180000-abonados-estaran-sin-agua-por-trabajos-coordinados-entre-la-aaa-y-luma/