Chester Sam­bra­no

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing cus­tomers served by the Ca­roni Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant that op­er­a­tions at the fa­cil­i­ty were restart­ed ahead of time at 8:00 a.m. to­day – Sun­day 11th Au­gust 2024 and the sup­ply was re­stored on the south sys­tem first­ly, while the North sys­tem is cur­rent­ly be­ing re-en­er­gised. 

In a state­ment to­day, WASA con­grat­u­lat­ed all mem­bers of the var­i­ous teams, who worked as­sid­u­ous­ly to ex­e­cute a to­tal of 24 dif­fer­ent jobs, as­so­ci­at­ed with crit­i­cal elec­tri­cal main­te­nance at the Ca­roni Plant, as well as key an­cil­lary works along the Ca­roni North and South trans­mis­sion pipeline net­work. 

WASA said T&TEC must al­so be com­mend­ed for the sup­port pro­vid­ed dur­ing this ex­er­cise, in par­tic­u­lar at the Ca­roni Plant and El So­cor­ro Boost­er Sta­tion.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, the WASA’s new Op­er­a­tional Con­trol Cen­tre (OCC) played an in­te­gral role in da­ta col­lec­tion and mon­i­tor­ing the progress of planned works com­plet­ed dur­ing the shut­down.

As the Au­thor­i­ty con­tin­ues the process of re-en­er­giz­ing the Ca­roni trans­mis­sion/dis­tri­b­u­tion pipeline net­work, this may re­sult in a dis­coloured wa­ter sup­ply. 

WASA said it is cur­rent­ly car­ry­ing out flush­ing pro­to­cols through­out the net­work, which is ex­pect­ed to re­sult in the sys­tem ful­ly clear­ing over the next 24 hours. 

“Cus­tomers who may be re­ceiv­ing a dis­coloured sup­ply, are ad­vised to let their taps run un­til it clears. Cus­tomers in most af­fect­ed ar­eas are ex­pect­ed to have their ser­vice re­stored over a 24 – 48-hour pe­ri­od, in ac­cor­dance with es­tab­lished sup­ply sched­ules.

How­ev­er, some cus­tomers at the ex­trem­i­ties of the dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tem, par­tic­u­lar­ly at the fur­thest ar­eas in South Trinidad, may ex­pe­ri­ence longer de­lays in hav­ing their ser­vice re­stored.”

WASA said the amend­ed wa­ter sup­ply sched­ules to ar­eas im­pact­ed by the planned shut­down, will be avail­able on its web­site and so­cial me­dia pages.