WASCO announces ability to partially supply residents in the north
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Contact: Shannon Lebourne
Thursday 11 November 2010 – The Water and Sewage Company (WASCO) is providing good news for citizens in the north of the island who have been without potable water ever since the passage of hurricane Tomas.
WASCO says after conducting various tests along the distribution lines, it is in a position to supply households with pipe-borne water very soon.
But the water company says there will be need for significant rationing.
“The Water and Sewage Company (WASCO) is now treating water at the Ciceron Treatment plant; what that means is we will be able to supply the public with potable water very shortly. The water is now being treated because the technical teams have repaired all ruptures along the distribution lines from the John Compton Dam to the Ciceron Treatment Plant,” says Communications Consultant to WASCO, Clinton Reynolds. “Now that all the repairs have been done WASCO is pumping water down to the treatment plant for treatment and onward distribution to the public. However, from the treatment plant the water will not go directly to the households; WASCO will be pumping the water to its holding tanks and when these are filled the valves will be opened and water will be flowing through the pipes of our consumers.”
Notwithstanding the promising forecast, Reynolds is advising the general public to make every effort to conserve water.
He says the Water and Sewage Company is advising all citizens particularly residents in the north, to harvest as much rain water as possible until a steady supply can be produced.
“We are still in a water crisis situation. The demand for the north is over eight million gallons of water daily, however WASCO is only able to process at the Ciceron Treament Plant just about three million gallons—an indication of a significant disparity. “Right now the treatment plant is functioning at below half its capacity, so WASCO will have to ration the water and distribute water to various communities at different times of the day to accommodate the volume of water that we have at present.”
Reynolds says despite the good news, WASCO continues to make progress with work to recommission the Vanard Water Intake to augment the supply of water being pumped from the John Compton Dam.
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