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.