The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) has com­plet­ed works to re­place 70 me­tres of sew­er pipeline along Sut­ton Street, be­tween Prince of Wales and Prince Al­bert Streets in San Fer­nan­do.

The up­grade, which be­gan on Sep­tem­ber 5, di­rect­ly ben­e­fits about 200 res­i­dents and re­solves a pub­lic health con­cern caused by an over­flow­ing man­hole.

WASA iden­ti­fied the is­sue on Au­gust 16 dur­ing a com­mu­ni­ty tour by its Ex­ec­u­tive Evo­lu­tion Team and Dr the Ho­n­ourable Michael Dowlath, MP for San Fer­nan­do West and Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion. Act­ing CEO Jee­van Joseph then com­mit­ted to com­plet­ing re­pairs be­fore the start of the 2025–2026 aca­d­e­m­ic year.

The Waste­water Ser­vices Team worked con­tin­u­ous­ly, in­clud­ing overnight, to fin­ish the project on sched­ule on Sep­tem­ber 7, ahead of the re­open­ing of schools and in­creased traf­fic.

WASA has com­plet­ed tem­po­rary re­in­state­ment of the af­fect­ed road­way and ex­pects to com­plete per­ma­nent re­in­state­ment with­in three weeks.

Joseph said the project shows WASA’s re­newed com­mit­ment to ad­dress­ing wa­ter and waste­water is­sues swift­ly and ef­fec­tive­ly, as part of its tran­si­tion in­to a more re­spon­sive and cus­tomer-fo­cused util­i­ty.