NAN-H-48
Maintenance
By Bukola Adewumi and Fummi Adeyemi
Abuja, Sept. 27, 2016 (NAN) The FCT Water Board has advised residents of parts of the territory to store water as the board would shut down water supply to carry out repairs on some facility within the territory.
Mallam Hdu Bello, Director FCT Water Board, who made the announcement on Tuesday in Abuja in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), said the maintenance work would last for two days.
He said that the board decided to carry out maintenance work following report it received of damage of some pipes within the territory.
He listed the affected areas to include Kubwa, Gwagwalada, Airport road and residents within the National Open University.
Bello said that the board would shut down water supply to residents of these areas to facilitate the repair.
“On Monday, we got a report about some challenges we are having with some of our lines,“he said.
According to him, the report indicated that one of the board’s main line is leaking.
He said that personnel of the board had gone to the area to ascertain the level of damage.
“Usually, what we do is that when we have such a challenge, we have to go and assess the damage and there is a need for us to shut out water supply for repairs.’’
“We are calling on residents of these areas to store up water that will last them for some days,’’ he said.
The director said the information was coming at the right time so that consumers would not be taken by surprise and urged them to store enough water to last them for the duration of the disconnection.
On the recent discoloration of water in Kado area of FCT, the director said this usually happens when there was prolonged stoppage of water.
“Anytime there is a shut down due to repair and you now release the water, some of the corroded pipe inside the first water that comes out will clean the pipe.
“It continues for about ten minutes before it clears off. So that is why there is usually water discoloration,“he said.
Bello added that the problem was a localised one as it was peculiar to a particular area.
“The water we are sending is from Usman dam, we have no special treatment for water in any area because treatment of water is usually done at a central point.
“When the problem of discoloration occurs, the residents should complain to water board for proper investigation and to fix it.
“ Some of these areas might have busted pipe carrying mud inside the water,’’ he said and appealed to residents to pay up their bills promptly for better service delivery. (NAN)
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Edited by Joseph Edeh and Controlled by Archibong Asuquo