The De­sali­na­tion Plant at Point Lisas will be shut down for three days, from Tues­day 13 to Thurs­day 15 Sep­tem­ber 2022, to fa­cil­i­tate emer­gency re­pairs to a leak on the Clear­well Head­er at the fa­cil­i­ty.

An ad­vi­so­ry from the Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go ex­plains that De­sal­cott (De­sali­na­tion Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go) no­ti­fied it of the three-day shut­down, which will im­pact the over­all pipe borne wa­ter sup­ply to ar­eas in Cen­tral and South Trinidad.

“The De­sal­cott owned and op­er­at­ed de­sali­na­tion plant, pro­vides the Au­thor­i­ty with 40 mil­lion gal­lons dai­ly, which is used to sup­ply the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, as well as aug­ment the sup­ply to ar­eas in Cen­tral and South Trinidad,” WASA points out.

WASA says in or­der to mit­i­gate the ef­fects of this sup­ply short­fall on op­er­a­tions, it will im­ple­ment the fol­low­ing mea­sures dur­ing the pe­ri­od of shut­down:

●   Re-dis­tri­b­u­tion of sup­ply from the Ca­roni and Navet Wa­ter Treat­ment Plants;

●   Im­ple­men­ta­tion of tem­po­rary sup­ply sched­ules;

●   En­sure full ca­pac­i­ty stor­age at crit­i­cal ser­vice reser­voirs;

●   In­crease wa­ter truck­ing ca­pac­i­ty;

●   Spe­cial em­pha­sis and arrange­ments to sup­ply schools, health in­sti­tu­tions, homes for aged and oth­er spe­cial needs or­gan­i­sa­tions.

Af­fect­ed ar­eas in­clude:  Cen­tral Ca­roni, War­renville, Cunu­pia, Ch­agua­nas, Ca­paro, Chase vil­lage, Cou­va, Pt Lisas, Cal­i­for­nia, Clax­ton Bay, Plai­sance Park, Pointe a Pierre, City of San Fer­nan­do, Vista­bel­la, Mara­bel­la, Gas­par­il­lo South West Union Hall, Pleas­antville, Palmiste, Phillip­ine, Dun­can Vil­lage, Es­per­ance, Gulf View, Bel Air, La Ro­main, South Oropouche, Ota­heite, Rousil­lac, Aripero, parts of La Brea, Av­o­cat, Fyz­abad, parts of Siparia in­clud­ing De Gannes Vil­lage and Quar­ry Vil­lage, San Fran­cique, Debe, Syne Vil­lage, Lowkie Trace, Sun­rees Road, and Mo­ra Dam Road.

Cus­tomers are ad­vised to main­tain/es­tab­lish a sys­tem of stor­age and man­age their wa­ter use ef­fi­cient­ly, as it may take up to 48 hours for the sup­ply to nor­mal­ize to some af­fect­ed ar­eas, af­ter the Plant re­turns to full op­er­a­tion.

WASA cus­tomers are fur­ther ad­vised that the tem­po­rary sup­ply sched­ules for the pe­ri­od of the dis­rup­tion will be avail­able on:

●   Web­site at www.wasa.gov.tt

●   Face­book page at WASA Trinidad & To­ba­go

●   Twit­ter via @wasat­nt.

To re­quest a truck borne de­liv­ery, WASA re­minds the pub­lic the fol­low­ing self-ser­vice op­tions are avail­able:  

●   Use of the mo­bile WASA Ser­vices App, which can be down­loaded for An­droid mo­bile cus­tomers from the Play Store, or iPhone mo­bile cus­tomers from the Ap­ple store; or

●   The Cus­tomer Por­tal avail­able on the Au­thor­i­ty’s web­site at www.wasa.gov.tt

Al­ter­na­tive­ly, cus­tomers re­quir­ing di­rect as­sis­tance to re­quest a truck borne de­liv­ery or fur­ther in­for­ma­tion can con­tact WASA’s Cus­tomer Call Cen­tre toll free at 800-4420 and 800-4426.