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"Friday, May 12, 2023 - Restriction of drinking water distribution in the Oriental Bay Park sector -----------
For several weeks, SAUR Saint-Martin teams have seen a very strong increase in online losses on the private network of the Bay Oriental Park. These daily losses of drinking water, which the territory desperately needs, are estimated to be more than 600 m3 (600,000 litres) per day, or just under 10% of current daily production capacity.
Given the facts, it’s important to understand that the tensions over the public drinking water service for too many weeks can be attributed to four major causes:
- A production tool that no longer meets the territorial need in terms of consumption volumes and on which work is planned,
- Too recurring "outbreaks" in the network related to the network's weariness and a lack of renewal,
- Online losses that can be colossal on the private networks of certain condominiums,
- Water flights in large quantities, on which increased vigilance is now imposed.
In the particular case of the Oriental Bay Park, it also appears that the condominium management bodies, despite the court decisions, are cultivating a debt, which today reaches €2.8 million; a debt that strongly affects the investment capacity of the EEASM, which, on this amount, is a collector. different taxes levied on the public water service.
Faced with this situation of tension that penalizes all subscribers and especially those who are at the end of the network, SAUR Saint-Martin is forced to drastically reduce the distribution of drinking water on the Bay Oriental Park.
Conscious of the economic issues and respecting the energy deployed by professionals who have not been spared in recent years between Irma, the health crisis, sargasm failures and the inevitable water cuts, SAUR Saint-Martin will arrange hourly drinking water distribution beaches in line with the needs of the professionals as private subscribers, as follows:
- From 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
- From 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
- From 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m
These measures will remain in place as long as the volume of leaks on this private network jeopardizes the power of the entire territory. SAUR Saint-Martin invites the condominium management agencies to take exact measures of the situation and to stop any manipulation on the general account that will be the subject of daily and random changes.
In this time of intense heat and low rain that lead tank users to rely on the public drinking water supply network, it is important that we collectively and for the benefit of distribution to all, be vigilant about our use of the resource and respects the restrictive measures taken by order of the President of the Collective and still in force.
SAUR Saint-Martin asks those who among its subscribers respect their contractual obligations and citizen duties to apologize for the inconvenience caused by these measures which are unfortunately made necessary for the service rendered well for the benefit of all the public."
