During a meeting with the Southern Governorate Municipal Council, the Ministry of Works revealed that they have achieved 54% progress in East Riffa Sanitary Project-phase 6- and connected 400 out of 1750 houses to the network. The Ministry stated that works in the Southern part of the project will be completed by the end of February 2015, while works in the Northern part will be completed by the end of May 2015. The Ministry has assigned work to another contractor and continues to communicate with the Municipal Council to ensure that the project is progressing well.

 

Also, the Ministry explained that work in Block 909 is expected to complete in 3 months, while all connections in Block 905 are to complete within 2 months. Work is presently underway to complete the construction of pumping stations in Blocks 901 & 903. Houses linked to those stations will be connected to the network following the completion of the stations. Work to connect 200 houses in Block 901 is expected to commence soon. As for the storm water drainage project, the Ministry stated that they have already formed a team to restrict areas affected by floods during the rainy season, which amounted to 250 locations in all constituencies, for which designs have been finalized. The Ministry also referred to the revamp of Wadi Al Sail, where the engineers present at the meeting explained that a string of meetings took place to ensure that proper solutions are put in place for the internal areas far from the sea.