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Essequibo gets water treatment plant

Apr 10, 2009 News

By the end of this year, 2009, Essequibians will benefit from a US$12.3 million Government of Guyana and World Bank-sponsored water treatment plant, which is currently under rapid construction at the new site at Lima.
Water Sector Consolidation Engineer, Arshad Yacould said that the newly constructed water treatment plant was awarded to a Trinidadian contracting firm named the Utility Equipment Maintenance Contracting Agency.
The foreign contractor is tasked with the responsibilities of drilling. Yacould said that with this new iron removal facility the present content of  running water will be vastly improved, after which the water would have gone through the various processing stages, namely aeration, oxidation, filtration, coloration and finally storage.

Yacould said that at present the iron content in the water is 5.5 mg per litre. He added that when the water is fully processed the iron content would be 0.5 mg per litre.
He said residents from Queenstown in the north to Walton Hall in the south stand to be the main beneficiary from this new venture, a total of almost 5,000 households.    The metering project is ongoing, he said. However, the transmission project is currently in the defects liability period.
This newly rehabilitated project commenced three and a half weeks ago, a first of its kind for Essequibians. Berbice and Demerara have already been benefiting from such a facility.

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