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Berbicians brace for more weeks of water woes

Feb 12, 2019 News

 

It was at a meeting a week ago with the Managing Director of Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) that Dr. Richard Van West Charles assured Berbicians that the water issues currently experienced throughout the ancient county will be resolved within a week’s time.
However, this is not the case.
The Regional Manager, Randolph Leitch, at his GWI’s Chesney office, disclosed that the problem is expected to continue for the next week or more due to the Guyana Power and Light’s ongoing issue with low voltage.
According to Leitch, “We are still having power issues from GPL; we are still getting a lot of low and high voltage intermittently”. Residents from areas such as Fyrish and on to areas like Adventure and Manchester are the ones that are affected.
He added, that in terms of a resolution he could not provide an exact timing but assured that in the meantime they are “trying our utmost to ensure the pump stations are running”.
Leitch pointed out that up until Friday morning the stations were down but as of yesterday they were up and running. That, however, was short lived since they went back down during the peak period (15:00-16:00 hrs) Saturday.
The manager said that GWI has been monitoring the situation and has noticed that that has been the trend for the past two weeks, with the stations going down at the time provided above.
As it relates to what the power company has been telling GWI, the power company has indicated that they are still experiencing generation issues.
The regional manager explained that they are currently sending water from other pump stations clos to villages affected. The plants located at Port Mourant and New Amsterdam respectively are still running on generators but this too is becoming a problem since according to Leitch, four motors were burnt over the past week.
He added, “If the power continues like this then more motors will be burnt”. A large motor is estimated to cost $3M while a smaller one goes at $2.5 M.
In the case of an extreme shortage of water, Leitch said the company will look to have water distributed by trucks but as of now it has not reached to such an extent.
Nine pump stations are currently down in the region.

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