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Water supply disruptions in Forest Hills, environs

Published:Sunday | December 23, 2018 | 12:00 AM

The National Water Commission (NWC) has advised that the Forest Hills Deep Well facility in St Andrew is currently out of operation due to an electricity outage. 

This outage will also result in the shutdown of the series of interlinked relift stations that are dependent on the Forest Hills facility. 

The water utility is advising that normal operations will be restored as soon as the power supply issues are resolved.

The areas affected include: sections of lower Red Hills Road and all roads leading off, Rock Pond, Red Hills, Brentwood, Leas Flat, Belvedere, Mosquito Valley, Sterling Castle, Forest Hills, Perkins Boulevard, Meadowbrook Estate, Coopers Hill, Castle James, Padmore, Swain Spring, Maverly Mountain, Burnt Side, Burnt Side Valley, Brentwood, Sterling Castle Heights, East Kirkland Heights, Red Hills square and Belvedere.

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