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Friday, February 28, 2025

WASA upgrading Valsayn Water Works

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38 days ago
20250120

re­place age­ing in­fra­struc­ture.

This project aims to re­place the age­ing 500,000-gal­lon con­crete clear­well with a 750,000-gal­lon fac­to­ry-coat­ed bolt­ed steel clear­well.

Ac­cord­ing to WASA it marks a "piv­otal step to­wards en­hanc­ing wa­ter se­cu­ri­ty, re­li­a­bil­i­ty, and qual­i­ty for ap­prox­i­mate­ly 40,000 res­i­dents across mul­ti­ple com­mu­ni­ties, in­clud­ing Wharf Trace, Low­er St. Joseph, and Tu­na­puna."

The Val­sayn Wa­ter Works re­ceives raw wa­ter from 11 wells and the Ca­roni Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant (WTP). WASA stat­ed that "the ex­ist­ing con­crete clear­well has reached the end of its ser­vice life, ex­hibit­ing se­vere in­ter­nal degra­da­tion and a sig­nif­i­cant leak that pos­es health and op­er­a­tional risks."

Recog­nis­ing the ur­gency of the sit­u­a­tion, WASA has cho­sen to do a com­plete re­place­ment rather than re­pairs, "en­sur­ing a long-term so­lu­tion that pri­ori­tis­es com­mu­ni­ty health and safe­ty."

The new tank is ex­pect­ed to en­hance the over­all ef­fi­cien­cy of the plant. It is al­so ex­pect­ed to cre­ate a safer work­ing en­vi­ron­ment for the plant op­er­a­tors and for­ti­fy the re­li­a­bil­i­ty of the wa­ter sup­ply for the Val­sayn Wa­ter Works sup­ply zone.

Ac­cord­ing to the re­lease, this up­grade will yield nu­mer­ous ben­e­fits for res­i­dents, in­clud­ing:

In­creased Stor­age and Sup­ply Re­li­a­bil­i­ty

En­hanced Wa­ter Qual­i­ty and Safe­ty

Re­duced Wa­ter Loss and Im­proved Op­er­a­tional Ef­fi­cien­cy

Cli­mate Re­silience and Emer­gency Pre­pared­ness

En­vi­ron­men­tal and Eco­nom­ic Sus­tain­abil­i­ty

WASA added, "The Val­sayn Wa­ter Works up­grade is a tes­ta­ment to WASA’s strate­gic trans­for­ma­tion goals, en­sur­ing long-term sus­tain­abil­i­ty and im­proved ser­vice de­liv­ery. With the new clear­well, we are com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing greater re­silience in wa­ter stor­age and dis­tri­b­u­tion, sig­nif­i­cant­ly re­duc­ing the risk of ser­vice dis­rup­tions and en­sur­ing a con­sis­tent, high-qual­i­ty wa­ter sup­ply."

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