One day after an area along Southern Main Road, at Coromandel Village caved in cutting off vehicular traffic, about 500 residents are now without a supply of water.
Cedros councillor Shankar Teelucksingh said the leaking water pipeline which had undermined the soil causing the road to collapse, ruptured again and had to be once again locked off by WASA. Following the incident on Thursday, he said the water supply had been restored to most areas in the village.
However, he said, “Up to lunch time everything was going fine until the WASA pipeline burst again. So although the road is reopened with a single lane, WASA came and isolated the line. So the whole of Coromandel Village is out of a WASA supply.”
He said when he contacted a WASA official he was told that an emergency crew cannot be sent to repair the line and restore a water supply to the village because that entails overtime and that has to be authorised by the chief executive officer. “They are saying that the residents will have to wait until quite Monday to get back a supply of water.”
An email was sent to WASA’s corporate communication’s assistant manager Gregory Roxborough, requesting a comment on the situation, but up to press time, there was no response.