The planned water works at Waila for the connection of Viria Water Supply to the Waila Water Treatment Plant system have been completed successfully.
Minister for Public Works Ro Filipe Tuisawau inspected the work site and acknowledged the teams involved in the work.
He says these works are essential and entailed about 20 hours of work to build resilience, redundancy and reliability in the Suva-Nausori Water Distribution Network.
WAF Chief Operating Officer Seru Soderberg says as of this morning, WAF teams were conducting flushing and bleeding and had charged the pipeline from the Waila Water Treatment Plant to the Wainibuku Reservoir.
He says water flow should normalise to the Wainibuku Reservoir at around 3pm today as they will focus on refilling reservoirs to operating levels.
Soderberg says restoration works to normalise supply should commence from midnight tonight into tomorrow morning with anticipation of meeting 90 percent restoration to affected areas.
He says they would like to thank the people for their understanding and patience and for taking heed of the advice for storing water this weekend.
Water carting trucks are on standby to assist when needed.
