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Kannat Tabla residents seek help with water supply, uncleared branches
Retired ports police assistant chief Ray Agulto is urging the Commonwealth Utilities Corp., government, and lawmakers to look into the water situation in Kannat Tabla as well as dangling tree branches on the road in the area.
Agulto requested CUC to open the water pipeline into Kannat Tabla at least one to two hours a day so they could refill their tanks.
“I don’t think they need a generator to open it because it’s a gravity flow from the mountain. Just let the water flow,” said Agulto in an interview yesterday.
Saipan Tribune visited Kannat Tabla on Tuesday and observed CUC personnel and police detectives providing free water to people from a fire hydrant near CMS Quarry leading to inside Kannat Tabla.
A police detective said they opened the hydrant on Monday to provide free water supply to residents staying in the southern part of the island.
Agulto said his relative called CUC regarding water supply to Kannat Tabla and was informed that there was no manpower to install the generator needed to run the pump.
Agulto said CUC opened 11 water stations on the island, but there was nothing in Kannat Tabla.
“Some people are already frustrated,” he said.
He said over 100 families in Kannat Tabla have no water supply.
Agulto also asked the government or the Saipan Mayor’s Office to remove all the dangling branches along the narrow Kannat Tabla road.
“It’s 19 days already after Typhoon Soudelor, but there’s still a lot of branches hanging and waiting to fall,” he said.
Agulto said it was actually Kannat Tabla residents who cleared the road of debris after the typhoon, using borrowed chainsaws and a backhoe from a construction company.
Agulto appealed to Reps. Francis Taimanao (Ind-Saipan) and Larry Guerrero (Ind-Saipan) to look into the water and debris problems for their constituents in Kannat Tabla.
