A three-acre floating island is just 200 meters away from Nalubaale power plant. The island, which is said to have been seven kilometers away from Nalubaale power plant on Sunday afternoon, is reported to have broken away from a bigger floating island that was anchored towards Bugungu landing site.
The island that measures four meters deep has split into about 15 smaller pieces, making it hard for the excavators to extract it at once.
Maj Ivan Tukei, a UPDF Officer attached to the engineering brigade, says they had hopped of summing up their operations by clearing part of the debris that clogged the turbines this afternoon but were shocked to find another floating island closer to the power plant.
He says the push boat operators are challenged moving the debris closer to the excavators because of heavy winds, which keep on blowing the island to different directions and increased water levels.
Feni Luvuyi, the Eskom's operations manager, says the island has been contained at the old bridge and won't affect the operations of the power plant.
On Wednesday last week, the entire country plunged into darkness when debris entered turbines at Nalubaale and Bujagali power dams. It took almost an hour to restore power.
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