Greater than 33,000 Nationwide Water Fee (NWC) prospects are nonetheless experiencing disruption to their potable water provide following the affect of Hurricane Melissa, in accordance with the Workplace of Utilities Regulation (OUR).
The regulator experiences that outages proceed to have an effect on prospects throughout seven parishes: Westmoreland, St. Elizabeth, Trelawny, Hanover, Clarendon, St. James, and St. Ann.
St. Elizabeth has been hit the toughest, with restoration reaching solely about 55 % of affected prospects to date. This leaves a good portion of the parish nonetheless with out common water service.
Westmoreland has the second-largest variety of impacted prospects, with roughly 9,000 accounts but to be reconnected. In Hanover, service restoration has reached roughly 58 % of NWC prospects.
The OUR attributes the sluggish restoration primarily to electrical energy provide points and mechanical issues throughout the NWC’s techniques, which have hindered restore and restart operations for the reason that storm handed.
