Mona and Hope treatment plants to be overhauled
THE Mona and Hope water treatment plants, which was commissioned in 1986, will be completely overhauled according to a release from the Ministry of Water and Housing.
In a release the ministry said the upgrade is aimed at improving treated water quality and to restore the plant to its original designed capacity of 16 imperial million gallons per day.
The rehabilitation on the Mona plant will include repair of rapid gravity filters, and the replacement of filter media, installation of automation and regulation controls and equipment, meters and valves, rehabilitation of chemical dosing equipment and including new chlorination facilities, repair to existing building, walkways and miscellaneous structures and replacement of backwash pumps.
The Hope plant rehabilitation will include, rehabilitation of intake structure on the Hope River, rehabilitation of raw water channel, aqueduct, gravel/silt traps, chemical dosing equipment and building, repairs and modifications to the settlement tank, repairs and improvements to slow sand filters including re-sanding, building rehabilitation and rehabilitation of a raw water transfer pumping station located at Mona which supplies the Hope Water Treatment Plant.