No plan to repair damaged pipeline along Mandela Highway - NWC

The National Water Commission (NWC) has decided against attempting to repair a major pipeline break along Mandela Highway.

NWC President Mark Barnett has told RJR News that “it is not cost effective at this time to even repair that pipe,” which is made of asbestos.

The pipe serves communities along Washington Boulevard and Dunrobin Avenue, and according to Mr. Barnett, modifications are being made to distribute water to the affected communities “by other means.”

That “other means” is in reference in part to a second pipeline which runs along “the same corridor.”

Residents in and close to Duhaney Park will benefit from that “inter-connection,” he said, while others further along the affected corridor will be served “from a different source, predominantly through our Mona system.”

Sections of the Corporate Area have been experiencing reduced water pressure or have been without water as a result of the break which occurred on December 8.

Several houses were flooded in the community of Ferry, which is off Mandela Highway.