The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty has con­firmed that the Ca­roni Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant has been restart­ed, fol­low­ing com­ple­tion of nec­es­sary re­pair works at the fa­cil­i­ty.

A WASA ad­vi­so­ry is­sued to­day notes that the fa­cil­i­ty was restart­ed at about 9:00 p.m. on Thurs­day No­vem­ber 5, 2020.

“The as­so­ci­at­ed trans­mis­sion and dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tems are be­ing grad­u­al­ly re-pres­sur­ized in keep­ing nor­mal op­er­at­ing pro­ce­dures fol­low­ing a shut­down of this na­ture,” the WASA state­ment ex­plains.

The Au­thor­i­ty is re­mind­ing cus­tomers in parts of North, Cen­tral and South Trinidad, who were af­fect­ed by the shut­down—which was nec­es­sary for the re­pair works—that it may take up to 48 hours for the pipe borne wa­ter sup­ply to nor­mal­ize to some ar­eas in keep­ing with es­tab­lished wa­ter sup­ply sched­ules.

“The Au­thor­i­ty is al­so en­gaged in sys­tem flush­ing ex­er­cis­es in var­i­ous ar­eas in or­der to min­i­mize any dis­coloured sup­ply,” WASA says. “How­ev­er, cus­tomers who may ex­pe­ri­ence dis­coloura­tion in their sup­ply should al­low same to flow un­til it clears.”

WASA is en­cour­ag­ing its cus­tomers in need of fur­ther in­for­ma­tion or as­sis­tance to con­tact the Cus­tomer Call Cen­tre toll free at 800-4420 and 800-4426.