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UPDATE: Road Town Pump Station back online

February 23rd, 2024 | Tags: Serwage Road Town Water and Serwage Department BVI
The public is advised that the main pump station in Road Town is back online. The pump station had a technical malfunction on February 22, 2024. Photo: GIS/File
Motorists and pedestrians in Road Town area are being told to beware of sewerage overflow in Road Town, which is as a result of a technical malfunction at the main pump station in Road Town. Photo: Facebook/File Photo
Motorists and pedestrians in Road Town area are being told to beware of sewerage overflow in Road Town, which is as a result of a technical malfunction at the main pump station in Road Town. Photo: Facebook/File Photo
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– The public is advised that the main pump station in Road Town is back online.

The public was told to beware of sewerage overflow as a result of a technical malfunction at the main pump in Road Town on February 22, 2024. Later in the evening, the public was informed the issue had been resolved.

The Water and Sewerage Department thanked the public for its patience while they worked to resolve the issue.

See previous article published February 23, 2024

Motorists & pedestrians told to beware of RT Sewerage overflow

Motorists and pedestrians in Road Town area are being told to beware of sewerage overflow in Road Town, which is as a result of a technical malfunction at the main pump station in Road Town.

The warning came via a notice from the Water and Sewerage Department today, February 22, 2024, which added that persons must proceed with caution on approach to any flowing water in the vicinity of MidTown restaurant to Crab-Lot.

“As a result, the Road Town Pump Station is closed and persons are advised to keep the entrance clear. 

Information coming into Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) is that the overflow can be seen on the road and persons should also avoid getting in contact with the water. 

The department said it has prioritized this issue and regrets any inconvenience caused.

27 Responses to “UPDATE: Road Town Pump Station back online”

  • omg (22/02/2024, 16:02) Like (16) Dislike (3) Reply
    SINCE THE COI THE BVI IS GOING BACKWARDS AT A FAST RATE
    • @OMG (23/02/2024, 17:29) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
      Correction...since the VIP ruling government the BVI is going backwards to the point of no return.
  • visitor (22/02/2024, 16:29) Like (23) Dislike (1) Reply
    Why don't we get warned? We may only be here for a short time but we are still humans. Your sewage problem is disgusting - FIX IT.
  • sk**tington (22/02/2024, 17:04) Like (24) Dislike (0) Reply

    what a dump this place has turned into

  • Hum (22/02/2024, 17:30) Like (32) Dislike (0) Reply
    Fix the dump,fix the road,fix the sewage
    Fix the corruption ????
  • National embarrassment (22/02/2024, 18:13) Like (16) Dislike (0) Reply
    This is not only a Road Town shame but it is a national embarrassment for the whole country. Residents are warned but tourists, visitors and people who don't be on fB do not know what they're walking in.

    Let us put mitigation in place and service the entire system instead od waiting for things to humble one by one and keep putting the place to shame
  • $hit Hol3 (22/02/2024, 18:24) Like (23) Dislike (3) Reply
    Look what them greedy politicians we voted for allow this country to come to. All because of greed and self interest, not putting the country first. We are surely becoming a 3rd world country by the day. When will things get better in this place? Totally embarrassing.
    • Strupssssss (23/02/2024, 09:56) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
      It is a 3rd world Country, only the use of the US dollars that is making it worth the little is it worth
  • we (22/02/2024, 18:44) Like (14) Dislike (2) Reply
    We the citizens must be aware of over flo sewerage while our so call Primier tourning the old dam world with our hard working money every mins and sewerage just over flo all over un Road Town ......who can save us from this government the bvi is in q bad state we really need somebody to lead us forward....God helps us all in this place .
  • WE ARE DEAD IN THE WATER (22/02/2024, 19:15) Like (7) Dislike (5) Reply
    WE MUST BLAME LORNA FOR THIS MESS THAT SHE PUT THIS COUNTRY IN
  • facts (22/02/2024, 19:35) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    I agree with OMG
  • Amazed (22/02/2024, 20:23) Like (14) Dislike (0) Reply
    I’m amazed that there has not been a cholera outbreak as yet for all the years these people have been pumping sewage in our environment. Our immune systems must be pretty strong by now.
  • @ YOU MAY BE DEAD (22/02/2024, 20:44) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    SO DO US A FAVOUR AND REST IN PEACE / ALL OF A SUDDEN ITS LORNA . YOU FORGOT TO INCLUDE THE UK & THE GOVERNOR ( ITS ALWAYS THEIR FAULT , I CAM BET YOU DIDN'T FORGET TO TAKE YOUR PRECIOUS WIG TO THE DRY CLEANERS
  • HMMM (22/02/2024, 21:11) Like (20) Dislike (2) Reply
    Are we suprised ? We have a premier that is more interested in jumping on a plane and doing vanity projects than concentrating on our failing infrastructure. The whole government has let us down, the country is falling apart bit by bit. Our premier is a nice man but the job is beyond him, he fails to accept responsibility for anything. We need new elections.
  • ausar (22/02/2024, 21:14) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    No "Amazed";

    Our systems are not immune! We are now dying of all sorts of communicable diseases..

    A sad state of affairs indeed!
  • Curious (23/02/2024, 07:26) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
    Im curious who was the brilliant civil engineer who decided to put the sewage pumping station in the middle of town? Surely there are better places than the heart of our capital city?
    • @Curious (23/02/2024, 10:14) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
      The current location of the main pumping station by SOL was there for over 40 years. This station handles flows from Lower Estate, Purcell, Huntumn’s Ghut and the city environs. The main issue is lack of maintenance (proactive) and having trained, competent staff who are sufficiently equipped. Also, sewerage is non-revenue generating and thus a financial burden with zero returns. Businesses in the heart of town should be metered at the very least to offset the costs.
      • @@curious (24/02/2024, 14:25) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        The competent staff cannot maintain it if the money is not approved to purchase what is needed to maintain or rehabilitate the state. Stop blaming the staff.
  • While They’re At It… (23/02/2024, 08:52) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
    Fix the sewage outfall problem of Slaney. That sewage pipe just ends right off shore, and the bubbling up of the sewage and the long oily slick it leaves to slowly flow down shore is hideous. That pipe should have been constructed to take the sewage out to the deep part of the channel … but instead it runs right close to the shore where people live, work and people fish… it’s filthy and it’s wrong
    • SCB (23/02/2024, 14:32) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
      @while they’re at it— YES, please extend the sewage outfall pipe. The slick (and filth) it discharges drifts down onto Manuel Reef, Sea Cow Bay and Nanny Cay.

      The sea along that coast is too foul to fish or swim in. It’s just wrong!
  • facts (23/02/2024, 10:04) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    @ Amazed your talking cholera just wait until the sewage in fat hogs bay comes on line with the type of springs that’s there and the leaking pipes from the manholes the filth is going straight into the water table and some of those manholes are 17feef Down which don’t make any sense but who don’t hear will feel and the springs there are so strong ,But then when you give these people these no bid contracts and all they want is money and they are oils not listen to who knows better this is what will happen
  • Hygiene (23/02/2024, 10:51) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    My thoughts on this is why there is a waste pump station in middle of the city, am sure every one gets the smell of that place from time to time an not only that it’s what’s the tourist are experiencing not healthy for anyone .
  • @ hygiene (23/02/2024, 13:55) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    That Station was built over 45 years ago , the capital wasn't developed as It is now , the people who is running bthe department don't know ( B ) from bullsfoot , the sewer system needs up grading for donkey years now , more buildings are hooked up and they bigger and better grinder pumps to handle the AMOUNT of waste that they have to contend with day and night / looks like the government expect the workers to buy the pumps , because they are not adequate enough to handle the job properly , so the workers who nare under paid is at the mercy of the pumps which means double work for them , meanwhile the big boys are sitting in their offices enjoying the luxury of the ( AIR CONDITION) acting like kings and Queens , TRAVELLING ALL over yhe world and the workers cannot even get their ( INCREMENTS ) isn't that wonderful , when you big ~ YO BIG
  • WHAT!!! (23/02/2024, 14:02) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Which genius planed to put a sewerage pumping station in the middle of Road Town?
  • GateKeeper (23/02/2024, 19:10) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    The (British) Virgin Islands (VI) wastewater management plan is lagging and not First World. It seems to be managing the utility from the seat of its pants instead of from and by a comprehensive national development plan. The Water and Sewage Department rightly or wrongly has/is the dubious distinction of being the worst managed and operated department in the public sector. .The reason(s) for its poor rating falls not only and solely on the shoulders of the department head(s) but also on the ministry, premier, cabinet, HoA, etc. It is shameful, embarrassing and should not be occurring in the 21st Century whereby raw sewage seems to be routinely flowing in and into the streets, unnecessarily exposing residents to unhealthy, hazardous situations.

    Consequently, the VI wastewater situation is a 3:00 am fire, a Quadrant 1( Important and Urgent) state, requiring urgent action, including a wastewater master plan, national development plan, which should include primary, secondary, and tertiary wastewater collection, conveyance, treatment, and safely disposal processes. A state-of-the-art well-functioning wastewater utility is vital and critical for the economic, social, etc., growth and development of the VI. It is a factor in the human development index( HDI). Let’s get out of the Less, Lessness funk.



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