Technical teams with their equipment working on two-shift basis in Muscat Municipality do its extensive efforts in handling the weather condition
Written By: Ibraheem Bin Said Al-Hasny
Muscat Municipality continue its extensive efforts for handling the climatic adversity which the country has suffered from within the last days due to the weather fluctuations as the municipality teams using the equipment are working for opening the affected routes and removing valleys debris. Also, they pay all possible efforts for opening the main ways in Muscat Municipality in order to ensure the traffic flow for the vehicles. Therefore, the field working teams have deployed in Muscat City for opening the routes and siphoning off aquifers, ponds and blockages in the lines and systems of water drainage networks on the main and sub-ways which are a result of rainfall and valleys flows for ensuring opening the streets before the traffic flow and providing immediate solutions for treating such issue as soon as possible. Amerat and Quriyat Wilayats have been provided with heavy machinery and equipment for working with quick efforts so as to restore the affected services back to normal. The Field and Technical teams have commenced with cleaning the residential districts and water drainage systems and removing sediment, mud, the remnants of trees and watersheds away from the streets and parks.
Muscat Municipality has removed the falling trees and barriers on the main streets of Muscat which are a result of the higher winds accompanied with the rain. Teams have been formed and deployed all over the regions of Muscat Municipality and modern cutting-edge electric pruning machines and equipment have been used for removing the barriers resulted from strong winds and flow of valleys waste. Also, transportation trucks have been deployed for transferring waste residue to waste disposal sites safely. The Municipality continue its works through cleaning the residential districts and the sub-streets from the debris of trees which have dropped and rainwater sediment.
On the other hand, The Municipality have handled with the reports received from residents across the available hot line regarding the watersheds in some sites and the working teams have worked in many General Directorates of the Municipality during the period of rainfall which has that swept across the city and monitoring the sites that usually collects rainwater.
It is worth mentioning that Muscat Municipality has taken all the precautionary procedures in preparation for the weather condition. Also, the municipality has formed field teams and shift teams all over the General Directorates and all the units of the Municipality for following-up the situation and handling all the notes provided to them. This was in coordination with Royal Oman Police and other government agencies and forming working committees to be work in accordance with the mechanisms and cadres working during the morning and evening periods.
Finally, Muscat Municipality is calling the all to be careful especially during the walk on the ways in which working is still on progress within in addition to the excavations works resulted from some projects on the city and providing any report about related feedback regarding the services of the Municipality or rain pools by calling the Communication Center 111 ).