By Stanley Onyekwere
The Acting General Manager, FCT Water Board, Dame Joy Okoro, has revealed intensified effort towards restoring water supply to residents of Kubwa, Gudu, Gwagwalada, Airport and University of Abuja, by Monday evening.
Okoro, assured that all things being equal, in three days time (Monday) a damaged treatment plant 3&4, that caused disruption of water supply to these areas will start working again within the period.
Recall that for about a week now residents were hit with water scarcity, following disruption of water supply to some parts of the FCT, due to the damaged pipeline feeding a major water treatment plant, in Usuma Dam, in Bwari Area Council of the FCT.
According to the Board’s GM:” Customers in phase one of the FCC (Garki 1&2, Wuse 1&2, Asokoro, and Asokoro extension are having regular water supply.
“But those that are not getting water supply right now are our customers in Kubwa, Gwagwalada, Airport, University of Abuja and Gudu.
“We sent out water tankers to service all these people, so that we can alleviate their suffering from the no water supply situation.
“We have an issue on our pipeline that services phases three and four treatment plants, which disrupted water treatment plant operations, because the whole water line servicing the treatment plant has an issue.
“We sent out water tankers to service all these people, so that we can alleviate their suffering from the no water supply situation.
“So, we are practically doing everything possible to make sure all our customers have water supply.”
Similarly, HOD Distribution, FCT Water Board, Abolade Lawal, leading the engineers working on the site of the damaged equipment, said it was realised that one of the Viking joints failed, which is going to be replaced now.
He revealed that the Board had challenge of non supply of the equipment required to fix the problem because of restrictions on movement in France due to COVID-19.
“We are currently cutting and filing the pipe, which will take us to the evening of today, and tomorrow we are coming back to install all that have been removed, so that the waterline can be put into use again, and by tomorrow we would have finished welding works.
“And thereafter, we will do the coating on Saturday, and we need to leave it to dry. But it will take us about one day for the process to be completed and the water to get into the pipe, and the water treatment plant to begin operation again,” he stressed.
