By Gerardo R. Partido
Variety News Staff

THE Navy will again perform a partial production shutdown of its water treatment plant today and on April 4.
According to the Navy’s public affairs office, the production shutdowns are necessary to ensure the safety of divers performing underwater construction at the reservoir.
By carefully managing water inventory, and by maintaining partial production from springs, the Navy assured that it will be able to continue providing full water service to all customers.
Normal flow to the Guam Waterworks Authority will be maintained during the plant shutdown.
The Navy also assured that water from the Navy’s reservoir tanks will continue to supply Guam’s electrical plants at Cabras, Piti and Tanguisson, firefighting systems, and U.S. Naval Hospital Guam.
The shutdowns are planned one day apart to allow for sufficient recovery of stored water and to minimize the inconvenience to customers.
According to the Navy, the scheduled outages are necessary to facilitate Navy Water Treatment Plant upgrades, which will improve treatment processes, modernize process control instrumentation, and provide redundancy. The end result of the upgrades will be better, more reliable water service to Navy customers.