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Shoddy road works cost Linden municipality a fortune
Substandard road and drainage works on both the Mackenzie and Wismar shore, have been raising the ire of Linden residents and the Interim Management Committee Chairman Orrin Gordon and other major stakeholders for some time now.
Yesterday the IMC Chairman himself took media operatives on a tour of the community to highlight the worst of the infrastructural works that were recently carried out.
The road is collapsing one month after construction
Some of the worst rehabilitated roads are located in the heart of Linden, and intersect with a major thoroughfare in the community, Greenheart Street.
Potaro Road and Dageraad Avenue were both rehabilitated less than a month ago, but the deterioration that is already clearly evident would suggest otherwise.
As with most of the new infrastructural works in Linden, erosion has already begun to take place.
This erosion is further exacerbated by the clogged drain which runs parallel to Greenheart Street and which overflows whenever it rains.
Gordon said that the clogged drain results from the very drain cleaning exercise undertaken by D&I workers. The workers would deposit the silt on the shoulders of the road. The material washes right back into the drain whenever it rains.
Well Road in South Amelia’s Ward was done less than two months ago, and already huge chunks of the road edge have ‘broken off’. There are also gaps between the road and the drains where water collects instead of flowing straight into the drains.
It was pointed out by Gordon areas where the erosion has begun to undermine the drain itself.
Further down the road on a turn, water overflows into a resident’s yard threatening the foundation of her house, whenever it rains.
The woman said that she has lived at the location for over 22 years and was never affected by water ‘rushing down’ into her yard, even though there were no drains.
“Since we get this new road we getting this problem. In the past, the water was used to subside in the sand, but as we get the drain, we glad for the drain to carry the water where it suppose to go.
“But they aren’t properly done, so they’re overflowing and eroding the area. Now we got to prop up and try to save we foundation.
“The erosion is terrible, cause if you notice all the edges of the road going, because of the substandard work, and now instead of the water running in the drain, it running at the side of the drain. So is only a matter of time before the drain breaks in” the woman pointed out.
There is a depression in the drain right opposite to where the woman lives, where the water collects and overflows.
Revetment using huge slabs had to be erected down the road to stem the flow of water into other residents’ yards.
Gordon pointed out that most of the substandard work that is now so prevalent in Linden is due to the fact that the works are executed with no consultation with the relevant stakeholders, and as a result there is no supervision of these projects.
The materials used in the construction of the roads are also of questionable content, he added, while noting that none of the roads was done with double bituminous surface treatment. Instead, they were done with a mix of sand and laterite.
Poorly constructed is how he described the roads.
In Central Amelia’s Ward, some 33 kilometers of ‘red road’ is presently under construction. This road intersects with the highway about a mile from the newly constructed police outpost.
Gordon questioned the wisdom of constructing a back road which connects directly with the Soesdyke/Linden Highway far beyond the police outpost.
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