Qawra sewage overflow caused by badly installed private connection
A badly installed private waste water connection caused sewage to overflow into the sea at Qawra yesterday.
The Water Services Corporation said in a statement that in the afternoon waste was noticed flowing through two boathouses next to the sea in front of the Qawra Palace Hotel.
It cleared a blockage in Triq it-Turisti and the wastewater stopped seeping.
This morning, wastewater technicians surveyed the stoppage area by using remote CCTV and found that a private connection blocking the free flow of the corporation’s gravity main, causing the blockage.
As a result, waste water seeped around this faulty connection and eventually found its way into the sea.
The WSC said the connection was badly installed by unknown third-parties without the proper hardware or the necessary expertise on how wastewater private connections should be carried out.
A report was submitted to the health authorities who would be liaising with the owner of the premises in question to rectify the problem.
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N. Bonello
Aug 27th 2010, 22:01
And I bet I will pay for repairs of the illegal connection to sewage mains.
I think a fine of about EUR 50,000 and ALL costs of repairs is fair. But this is Malta !
Tabela
Aug 27th 2010, 21:04
Did the drainage by any chance sip from a nearbly hotel?????????????????
Charles Micallef
Aug 27th 2010, 18:17
Only in Malta would anyone be allowed to interfere directly with the public drainage system and cause so much harm to so many. It will be interesting to see if anyone will be prosecuted over this major bungle!
C Cassar
Aug 27th 2010, 16:55
Aren't these "boat houses" illegal and if so, when will they be demolished by MEPA?
Antoine Grima
Aug 28th 2010, 01:20
Get your facts right before you start pointing fingers.I don't own a boathouse but it does not mean that i don't want anybody else to have one.As far as i know those boathouses are legal and good luck to the owners.Hope those 2 with drainage seeping through them get compensation
M. Vella
Aug 27th 2010, 14:34
So will these third parties pay for damages caused or will the taxpayer have to do so??
Jane Waterhouse
Aug 27th 2010, 14:33
So, it wasn't a problem relating to the boathouses after all. Everyone's so quick to jump to incorrect conclusions and lay blame in the wrong places!!
Andre Cilia
Aug 27th 2010, 14:43
How on Earth it could be the boathouses' fault, when two boathouses had sewage seeping through their ceiling?
option 1: Sewage has successfully found a way to climb against gravity
option 2: A couple of people just want the boathouses cleared out of the way for some unknown reason
option 2 is more likely
N. Pace
Aug 27th 2010, 14:43
Do you have a boathouse by any chance?
Andre Cilia
Aug 27th 2010, 14:51
@ N.Pace
One of the quick boathouse pointer by any chance?
mario galea
Aug 27th 2010, 15:17
DOES A BOAT NEED A TOILET IN HER HOUSE???
j.schembri
Aug 27th 2010, 16:13
I think I know the reason for your "option 2", Mr.Cilia.
Guess the reason is that they're BOATHOUSES not residences. I doubt a boat needs a bed, a kitchen and a toilet; but I don't own a boat, so I might be wrong.
miriam grech
Aug 27th 2010, 16:50
does a residential boathouse need a big parking area, so as leaving only a one lane for traffic to pass to the beach? and leaving this area reserved for thr few boathouses owners? is this with the blessing of the MEPA ???????
N. Pace
Aug 27th 2010, 17:24
@Andre Cilia
Not at all.....unless they are illegal
maria theresa grech
Aug 27th 2010, 17:45
Dear Jane you seem comfortable with this area!!!!!! there is stolen parking area, By the way """ MEPA """" SEEMS HAPPY .
Andre Cilia
Aug 27th 2010, 18:14
For anyone's information the boathouses were built with all permissions necessary at the time by a well respected construction company. Also some of the boathouses were built by the government of the time.
@ Miriam Grech and Maria Theresa Grech
Anyone can park in front of the boathouses. This has been discussed and agreed between a number of boathouse owners and the St. Paul's Bay Local council. Where MEPA gets into this only Miriam Grech knows.