TSTT has had to bring in gen­er­a­tors to re­store elec­tric­i­ty at its Diego Mar­tin Ex­change af­ter the sup­ply was dis­rupt­ed when flood­ing hit the area yes­ter­day. Cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ag­er Gra­ham Suite said elec­tric­i­ty sup­ply to the area had been lost and the flood­wa­ters had dam­aged the com­mu­ni­ca­tion ca­bles. He ex­plained the Diego Mar­tin Riv­er runs di­rect­ly be­hind the ex­change.

"The back wall was de­mol­ished. The wa­ter over­flowed. "It went on­to the road­way. It is pret­ty se­ri­ous. "We will have the gen­er­a­tors as soon as pos­si­ble, by to­day. We are hop­ing to re­store pow­er...The fa­cil­i­ty is al­most com­plete­ly ex­haust­ed," he said.

WASA shut­downs

Mean­while, the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is­sued a re­lease say­ing it had shut down wa­ter-treat­ment fa­cil­i­ties in north Trinidad be­cause the in­takes were clogged with silt and de­bris brought on by swollen rivers and prob­lems with tur­bid­i­ty. Head of cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions Ellen Lewis ad­vised that cus­tomers would ex­pe­ri­ence some mea­sure of in­ter­rup­tion and should use their wa­ter ef­fi­cient­ly. Among the plants that were out of or­der ow­ing to the per­sis­tent rain­fall were:

• Mar­aval Wa­ter­works

• North Oropouche

• L&N Wa­ter­works

• Las Lo­mas

• Cau­ra

• Cu­mu­to

• Acono

• Tom­pire

• Gua­napo

• Quare Boost­er Sta­tion (ML)