Work crews from the Water and Sewerage Authority, (WASA) have started to repair a ruptured water main which damaged the home of a New Grant family, ruining their Christmas holiday. Water and mud poured into the house and soaked furniture. They had to break holes in a wall to get the water out.
WASA's corporate communications manager Ellen Lewis said the water line was isolated on Wednesday night and a crew was sent out to relocate and repair it. One family member, Conneil Taylor, 22, said the WASA team spent more than seven hours fixing the line yesterday. They arrived at the house at Circular Road, Sixth Company Village, New Grant around 8.15 am. Up to 3 pm, they were still working.
"Right now we have no water gushing through the house, but the walls are still cracked, the windows are still shattered and the balusters in the porch are now loose," Taylor said. He added that the constant flow of water had caused a massive landslip behind the house.
Taylor's mother Sherry Ann Joint also renewed her call for housing minister Dr Roodal Moonilal to assist them in getting an HDC house. Joint, who works as an MTS guard, said she was still paying for the house which she built in 2008. "To see all my efforts go down the drain is heart-wrenching. I want WASA to compensate me and I want to be relocated," Joint said.
Joint lives at the foot of an incline at Sixth Company Village, Circular Road, New Grant. She said her problems began on July 6 when she noticed a leak in WASA's main distribution line. She said she made several calls for WASA to repair the leak, but when it was repaired, it was done badly.