Publication: Daily Nation
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Paper Date: Thu, Apr 05, 2001
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The days of low water pressure and outages in some St Peter and St Thomas districts are coming to an end. That’s because construction started at the end of February on a $1 million replacement reservoir at Rock Hall, St Peter. During a site visit yesterday, Charles Marville, an engineer with the Barbados Water Authority, said the new concrete tank would replace a 30-year-old, problem-plagued facility. He said it would have the capacity to hold a million gallons of water compared with the previous tank’s half-million.
Marville told the DAILY NATION that residents of Indian Ground, who had complained of low pressure for the past two years, and those in Boscobel, St Peter; Rock Hall, St Thomas and Endeavour, St James, should see an improvement.
“Residents in the Indian Ground area have been suffering for the past two years. They should see some improvement. We are also looking at construction of a small sub-system in that area, and this should also benefit residents in Apes Hill and Endeavour, St James.”
Marville said workmen from a Trinidad firm, Spancrete, in conjunction with other local contractors, poured concrete on the base around March 17. He said construction was expected to be completed by mid-June.
Over the past several months, several callers to this newspaper complained of low pressure or outages, especially on weekends, which inconvenienced residents. One resident said that every sugar cane crop season she was forced to catch water every night just in case it was turned off.