WATER Authority of Fiji engineers have completed repair works on the leakage at the DN300 Benau to Volanau distribution pipeline, crossing the Labasa River and Nabeka in Siberia.
WAF general manager Customer Services and acting General Manager Operations Sekove Uluinayau said crew members had been working round the clock to complete the repairs and have water supply restored to the affected areas.
He said the team was able to expose and confirm the nature of the leakage in the first tide on Tuesday after constructing the shoring and cofferdam.
After then, he said they had planned to conduct the repair works during the second tide at 10:34 pm, and three hours prior, all required materials were set up and mobilised on site.
“The repair team was then briefed on the importance of this work with all safety being observed. Around 10pm, the fittings such as clamps were installed perfectly by two of WAF’s certified divers,” Mr Uluinayau said.
“These repairs to this distribution pipeline was no easy task, a lot of work and planning was put towards this. We had to align our repair work with the times of the tides to put in the sandbags and gabion cages to build a cofferdam to isolate the leakage section to carry out repairs,” Mr Uluinayau said in a statement.
