Rainwater harvesting facility at Percy Junor Hospital rehabilitated
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — A rehabilitated rainwater harvesting facility will be handed over to the Percy Junor Hospital in Manchester today, in an effort to improve the hospital’s challenges with water supply.
“Currently, the hospital receives water from rain water harvesting, piped and trucked water,” informed the Southern Regional Health Authority (SRHA) in an advisory today.
The SRHA said the hospital has two acres of drainage basin to fill three catchment tanks through rainwater harvesting, which has an aggregate storage of approximately 749, 390 gallons of water.
“This source, when filled to capacity, has the capability to supply the hospital with 90 per cent of its water supply.”
CEO of the Percy Junor Hospital, Carlton Nichols told the OBSERVER ONLINE that the drainage basins at the facility were deteriorating and needed to be fixed and “that is where the rehabilitation came in”.
He added that Carib Cement Ltd undertook the repairs, valued at J $5 million.
Minister of Finance and the Public Service and Member of Parliament for North East Manchester, Audley Shaw is expected to deliver remarks at the handing over ceremony.
