Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Mar­vin Gon­za­les, turned the sod to mark the com­mence­ment of works to de­vel­op three new wells in the Ma­yaro area on Wednes­day.

The sod-turn­ing fol­lowed a cer­e­mo­ny held at the site of WASA’s Well #15, along Cedar Grove Road, Ma­yaro, where Min­is­ter Gon­za­les in his ad­dress, iden­ti­fied this well de­vel­op­ment project, as one of sev­er­al be­ing un­der­tak­en with the aim of ad­dress­ing the wa­ter sup­ply chal­lenges fac­ing var­i­ous un­served and un­der­served com­mu­ni­ties. He ref­er­enced projects that have al­ready been com­plet­ed and ben­e­fit­ting cus­tomers in ar­eas such as Freeport, Arou­ca and To­ba­go, as well as projects to be start­ed soon in Ce­dros, Granville, Pe­nal and Siparia.

The new Ma­yaro Wells 18, 19 and 20, when com­plet­ed is ex­pect­ed to bring the Ma­yaro Wa­ter Treat­ment Plant to its full pro­duc­tion ca­pac­i­ty of 500,000 gal­lons per day, up from the cur­rent 220,000 gal­lons per day. This project is ex­pect­ed to ben­e­fit over 6,000 cus­tomers, who will see their wa­ter sup­ply move from one day a week or less to a min­i­mum of three days per week.

Those in at­ten­dance at the sod-turn­ing in­clud­ed: Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ma­yaro, Rush­ton Paray; Chair­man of the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, Ray­mond Co­zi­er, and mem­bers of the Cor­po­ra­tion Coun­cil; as well as Deputy Chair­man – WASA Board of Com­mis­sion­ers, Al­ston Fournil­li­er; WASA act­ing CEO, Kelvin Ro­main and mem­bers of the Man­age­ment Team.