WASA begins urgent repairs at Nelson Street apartments

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is set to be­gin ur­gent waste­water works to­day at the Nel­son Street Hous­ing Apart­ment Com­plex fol­low­ing re­ports of over­flow­ing sewage.

In a state­ment is­sued Thurs­day, WASA said it re­spond­ed to con­cerns raised by the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) and has mo­bilised its Waste­water Col­lec­tion Sec­tion to ad­dress the is­sue. Works are sched­uled to com­mence at 11:00 a.m., a de­ci­sion the Au­thor­i­ty said was made to avoid dis­rup­tion to stu­dents sit­ting the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tion and re­lat­ed school ac­tiv­i­ties near­by.

WASA ex­plained that the waste­water sys­tem at the com­plex is out­dat­ed and sus­cep­ti­ble to fre­quent block­ages. These is­sues are of­ten wors­ened by the im­prop­er dis­pos­al of de­bris in­to the sys­tem.

While re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for main­te­nance of the apart­ment com­plex and its waste­water in­fra­struc­ture falls un­der the HDC, WASA not­ed it has con­sis­tent­ly as­sist­ed in ad­dress­ing such prob­lems and will con­tin­ue to do so in the in­ter­est of pub­lic health.

The Au­thor­i­ty said spe­cialised equip­ment, in­clud­ing vac mas­ter trucks and tech­ni­cal crews, will be de­ployed to pro­vide im­me­di­ate re­lief to af­fect­ed res­i­dents.

WASA al­so reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to col­lab­o­rat­ing with key stake­hold­ers to en­sure the safe­ty and well­be­ing of com­mu­ni­ties. Res­i­dents are be­ing asked to ex­er­cise pa­tience as the works are car­ried out to re­solve the prob­lem in the short­est pos­si­ble time.