The Barbados Water Authority (BWA) is continuing efforts to restore water to sections of St Joseph and St Thomas affected by outages today.
BWA Marketing Officer Yvette Harris-Griffith explained “this problem arose because of low reservoir levels at the Castle Grant facility. Castle Grant receives water from Apes Hill and Golden Ridge Reservoirs where the water levels are now too low to pump. BWA Engineers are working to adjust the feed into Golden Ridge by pumping some extra water from Sweet Vale”.
According to Harris-Griffith some St Philip and Christ Church districts also experienced low water pressure and outages today, as a result of a power outage, which affected the Hampton Pumping Station.
“While I am happy to report that all pumps at that facility are back online and water has started flowing back to the affected districts, there are still a few St Philip and Christ Church areas suffering low pressure or a water outage. We ask for your patience as it will take some time for levels at the Rising Sun Reservoir that feed these areas to return to normal,” she said.
The BWA said that a fleet of approximately nine water tankers and its super tanker has been deployed to assist customers in the interim, while outages persist.
The Authority is also receiving assistance from partners in both the public and private sector to carry out the tanker service.
Seale’s Trucking has come on board to help distribute water and the Barbados Defence Force is providing crews to help sustain the distribution of water by tanker. Members of the BWA team were also in the field today distributing buckets to assist customers.
Persons with queries or who wish to notify the BWA about any challenges should call 434-4292 or email customercare@bwa.gov.bb.
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so glad to see so many people now willing to help…wish them well
I would like to know if these householders still have to pay water bills to the BWA. If so, they are paying for a service that they are not getting. Rural Barbados doesn’t seem to be a priority for the BWA while all the politicians will have running water and a joyous Christmas with their families. I would also like to know how often those water tanks are cleaned out and sanitized before re-filling.
This appears another case of no maintenance or planning. I wonder how much of the water leaving the pumping station actually gets to where it is going?
It is hard to believe that the BU had ran an exhaustive and fairly comprehensive and informative thread two years ago at the height of the chronic ”St Joseph water shortage” , and the situation today remains almost the same. Unbelievable. Talk about spinning top in mud!.
@TEJAY. I can assure you that these residents who are not getting piped water are still lumbered with paying their bills, plus the added on extras. There is also the question of hygiene practices by the tank attendants.
And I will bet that Andrews Plantation Great house, the holiday home of the Trin who closed down the operation of Andrews Sugar factory project,and Delisle Worrell and his mansioned neighbours on Andrews Round Hill are not affected. And if Innotech was still working on the Andrews Factory Site, they too would not be affected by any water shortage,as long as Golden Ridge has water. Thanks to the generosity of the previous Minister of Water etc.
BWA Marketing Officer Yvette Harris-Griffith explained “this problem arose because of low reservoir levels at the Castle Grant facility. Castle Grant receives water from Apes Hill and Golden Ridge Reservoirs where the water levels are now too low to pump. BWA Engineers are working to adjust the feed into Golden Ridge by pumping some extra water from Sweet Vale”.
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Weren’t the St Joseph /St John people promised some relief when the many water bearing wells at Sterling in St Philip were connected to Ben Springs in St John by a new 12 inch direct main?