The Provincial Defense Council is focusing its efforts on restoring the pumping system at the Lidio Ramón Pérez Thermoelectric Power Plant (CTE) in Felton, Mayari. As well as supplying water to communities affected by Hurricane Melissa in Holguin.
In the current recovery phase, Joel Queipo Ruiz, president of the Provincial Defense Council, reiterated the priority of restoring basic services to the population. Such as water supply and the energy system, which were impacted by the storm.
Juan Mario Hechavarría Hernández, the Water Resources delegate for the province, highlighted the progress in providing alternative water to the CTE by connecting the main pipeline to a larger one. Which guarantees gravity-fed water from the Mayari Dam. Workers from the DIP Trasvase (Water Transfer Project), the Water and Sewerage Company, the Hydraulic Resources Management Company, the Ramón de Antilla Tourism Works Construction Company, Felton workers, and two brigades from the agricultural sector are participating in the project.
They are currently working on the Gibara aqueduct system, where they are completing the installation of pipes over the bridge. Also with support from a contingent from Guantanamo. They are also installing a new connection at the Magueyal Dam in the municipality of Cacocum. Due to a high level of water that damaged a pipeline. The areas most affected are Antilla, Gibara, and Urbano Noris.
In Urbano Noris, they are working to remove a faulty pump from the Cauto River. Using excavation equipment to facilitate the process and allow them to resume water service to more than 30,000 residents.
In addition, they are carrying out maintenance on switchgear, installing transformers to optimize energy consumption, assembling pumps, cleaning clogged wells, and drilling new water sources in towns such as La Caridad, in Rafael Freyre, and Marcane, in Mayari.
Hechavarría reported that the sector has rehabilitated 33 water truck loading points, 52 distribution points, and restored service to more than 507,000 residents. Representing 71 percent of the affected population. Restoring electrical service is progressing in Antilla, Cueto, and Moa, with full coverage expected.
Meanwhile, Baguano, Gibara, Urbano Noris, and Mayari have more extensive damage to the grid and equipment. So crews are being redeployed to support these areas, explained Ruber Reynaldo, director of the Holguin Electric Company.
The overall damage, while not extensive, requires inspection, repair, replacement of resources, and certification. To this end, 156 damaged circuits, equivalent to 73 percent of the total, were restored with support from contingents in Ciego de Avila and Mayabeque.
The province of Holguin, immersed in the recovery phase, is gradually moving toward normalcy in productive sectors, goods, and services. Highlights include the resumption of the school year at all levels, the reopening of more than a thousand public health institutions, ongoing sanitation efforts, and the return of evacuees to their homes.
With information from the Cuban News Agency
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