WASA Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer Dain Ma­haraj has con­demned what he de­scribed as a sec­ond brazen at­tack on the Au­thor­i­ty’s in­fra­struc­ture in less than 24 hours, fol­low­ing the theft of elec­tri­cal wiring at the Tabaquite Boost­er Sta­tion.

Ma­haraj said the in­ci­dent was dis­cov­ered at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 5 a.m. to­day and forced the im­me­di­ate shut­down of the fa­cil­i­ty, dis­rupt­ing wa­ter ser­vice to thou­sands of res­i­dents in Tabaquite and sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties. Cus­tomers are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing low wa­ter pres­sure or com­plete ser­vice in­ter­rup­tions as a re­sult.

He not­ed that the in­ci­dent fol­lows a sim­i­lar act of van­dal­ism at the Biche Boost­er Sta­tion less than 24 hours ear­li­er, where un­known in­di­vid­u­als stole crit­i­cal elec­tri­cal wiring, caus­ing a com­plete pow­er fail­ure at the fa­cil­i­ty. The Biche in­ci­dent, which was dis­cov­ered ear­ly yes­ter­day morn­ing, forced the sta­tion of­fline at 6 a.m. and dis­rupt­ed wa­ter sup­ply to sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties, in­clud­ing Charu­ma, Biche, Plumi­tan and sur­round­ing ar­eas. T&TEC was no­ti­fied im­me­di­ate­ly, and teams from both agen­cies were de­ployed to re­pair the dam­aged in­fra­struc­ture and re­store ser­vice.