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The National Water Commission (NWC) will undertake a comprehensive review of the options for expanding the Mona Reservoir and the Hermitage Dam, the two major storage facilities that serve the Kingston metropolitan area.
Water Minister Matthew Samuda says this will be done during the upcoming fiscal year.
He says this will result in increased surface reliability through improvements in storage capacity and upgrading key catchments.
"As it relates to the Hermitage Dam, we will be examining the possibility of increasing the storage capacity of the dam by either raising the crest level of the dam or constructing an entirely new additional reservoir to capitalise on the overflows from the existing dam, which often occurs," he said.
The minister recalled that the NWC found "some weaknesses in the structure" of the dam, after it undertook a full engineering assessment last year.
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