A broad restoration and transformation process seeks to revitalize services in the main hydraulic complex for the water supply to the historic center and other communities in Las Tunas main municipality: El Rincón pumping station and water treatment plant.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- The metamorphosis began in June. Actions are being carried out at 11 construction sites, involving waterproofing and carpentry replacement in some areas, and technical elements refurbishment, such as electrical panels and filters.
Several entities and organizations in the territory are involved in the general repair, with specialized personnel for the recovery of technological modules that include a flocculator and a sedimentation tank, as well as renovated and equipped departments for laboratory technology.
Yunior Prado Hernández, the plant's main manager, assured the Cuban News Agency that these actions are developing gradually, without stopping the supply of liquid, after the renovation of the entire electrical system and the beginning of the assembly of an elevated tank with 10 thousand liters-capacity, for exceptional cases.
In addition, the bathrooms and the laboratory are being tiled, and the roof of the electric pumps has already been completed. The asphalt on the interior roads of the water treatment plant is being renewed, sidewalks are being built and work is being done on the perimeter fence and the generator set of the pumping station, said Pablo Paneque Almaguer, director of the Maintenance and Construction Company.
At this time, four electric pumps with a capacity of about 320 liters per second are in use at the water treatment plant and three at the pumping station when the service optimal operation demands about 500 liters.
Without any major repairs in its 25 years of exploitation, El Rincón remains the most important supply source for over 160,000 inhabitants.