The Tribune

By EARYEL BOWLEG

Tribune Staff Reporter

ebowleg@tribunemedia.net

SOME eastern New Providence residents had their water supply interrupted as the Water and Sewerage Corporation repaired a damaged transmission main on Prince Charles Drive yesterday.

The WSC said there was a leak on the transmission main near Popeye’s Chicken and that residents east of Fox Hill Road and south of Prince Charles Drive in the Joe Farrington Road area were affected.

A video from the corporation showed flooding in front of Popeyes and a large pothole with water a few feet away from the restaurant.

Throughout the day, the company provided updates and pictures of the pipe repair process on the road.

Many highlighted the inconvenience this situation caused.

“This is crazy. No water on Sundays and no light during the week. We need some type of relief in the East,” one person said on Facebook.

In May, water service was interrupted due to a leak repair of a transmission main on Prince Charles Drive. WSC advised there was a road closure from Springfield Road to Fox Hill Road during that time. Users expressed frustration over the repeat incidents.

“Y’all have to stop,” one person said. “Second time on the same line less than 1000 ft apart and less than two months apart. I am no mechanical engineer or rocket scientist, but y’all need to dig up the whole of Prince Charles, which y’all put down less than ten years ago, and start again. Y’all didn’t buy good pipes and this time have real people do the contracts.”

Another said: “Just a month from the last major leak in the same area. So why can’t water and sewerage get their repair right! No water for a whole day again. This is garbage.”