At least 70% of NWC customers without piped water

   

The National Water Commission says at least 70 per cent of its customers are without regular supply due to high turbidity levels as a result of the passage of Hurricane Beryl.

 

Acting Corporate Public Relations Manager, Delano Williams, says several systems were also shutdown ahead of the hurricane's passage.

 

Mr. Williams says efforts will be made to restore water to critical areas such as Trelawny, St. James, Hanover and Westmoreland and to bring all systems back online.

 

"The Roaring River system continues to operate but the Logwood system would have gone down overnight, so we are working assiduously to get those systems back online. And of course, along the southern coastline, Spanish Town would have been impacted somewhat because the Rio Cobre again was spate, so we had to shut. But we were serving on a reduced level through the storage systems that we have. We have a number of storage systems that been complementing and boosting the system to provide relief to customers, but once you get to Manchester, St. Elizabeth, there is, to a large extent, a lot of shut down," he reported. 

 

Mr. Williams was speaking Thursday on TVJ's Smile Jamaica.