The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) is ad­vis­ing that op­er­a­tions at the Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant fa­cil­i­ty were cut back at 7:30 a.m. to­day due to high lev­els of al­gae bloom in the in­take area of the plant.

This in­for­ma­tion was com­mu­ni­cat­ed to WASA by Sev­en Seas Wa­ter (SSW), own­er/op­er­a­tor of the Point Fortin De­sali­na­tion Plant.

At present, wa­ter de­liv­ery has been re­duced to 4.38 mil­lion gal­lons per day, down from the usu­al 5.5 mil­lion gal­lons per day.

Ac­cord­ing to WASA, due to the re­duced out­put, cus­tomers in the fol­low­ing ar­eas may ex­pe­ri­ence dis­rup­tions or low wa­ter pres­sure:

"Point Fortin prop­er, parts of Techi­er, Vance Riv­er, Par­ry­lands, Cochrane, Ma­haica, Lot 10, Cochrane, Sa­van­nah, Har­ri­man Park, Clifton Hill, Reser­voir Hill, Mer­ri­mac, Ves­signy, TGU, La Brea (up to the Pitch Lake)."

The SSW has as­sured WASA that every ef­fort is be­ing made to re­turn the fa­cil­i­ty to full pro­duc­tion at the ear­li­est. They will con­tin­ue to li­aise with the com­pa­ny and in­form cus­tomers when op­er­a­tions have nor­mal­ized at the Plant.