Two years after tragedy…

Aug 12, 2008 News

Tucville Sewage Depot sealed

It has been a little over two years since four-year-old Brianna Dover perished in a sewage depot at Tucville. Today, officials are putting the finishing touches to the facility to eliminate a recurrence of the tragedy that rocked the nation.

This newspaper visited the site yesterday, and observed that the entire facility has been renovated and the large open reservoirs have been covered.

Residents in the community are now breathing a huge sigh of relief, since they claimed that it is now less likely that a similar tragedy will occur again.

Natasha Alexander, Brianna Dover’s aunt, who resides in the modest community that adjoins the sewage facility, told this newspaper that she is happy with the initiative to seal-off the facility.

“Since she died, they started to work on it, like couple months after,” Alexander told this newspaper.
However, the woman explained that although the facility is now safe, it is like locking the stable after the horse had bolted.

“If they had done it first, I would have my niece until now. So, I does feel bad about it, because if wasn’t for her they would not have done it, and at least they know it was something very dangerous,” Alexander stated.

“I am happy that they do it and other children wouldn’t go for something like that to them,” she added.

Immediately after the tragedy, authorities had erected a fence separating the facility from the nearby squatter community, which was once the old Ministry of Housing complex.

This prevented children from wandering close to the treacherous reservoir filled with dumped human waste. The area has also been brightly illuminated.

“Yeah, they do a fence and they have light now at the back there, so the children don’t really go around there anymore,” Alexander told this newspaper.

According to the woman, the entire community still remembers the tragedy as if it had occurred yesterday.
“If they see children going out of bounds and out of sight, they would warn them to stay in the yard.

We always remind the children about the little girl who fell in. Up to the other day I talk to my son and I told him about Brianna.

I tell my children don’t go nowhere near, because just like how my niece go behind there and fall down and dead, the same could happen to them,” Alexander said.

On July 17, 2006, little Brianna Dover wandered into the sewage compound and fell into one of the 20-foot reservoirs which at the time was filled with human waste that was dumped by a city waste disposal company.

After she went missing, a search was launched around the area, and it was not until her haversack and slippers were seen in the reservoir that a decision was taken to search there for her.

Ordock Reid, a resident of the area, volunteered to dive into the cesspit, and after risking his life for more than two hours, he eventually found little Brianna.

But despite the efforts of medical personnel at the scene, who tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Brianna was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

An official at the site told this newspaper yesterday that dumping of sewage is still done at the location, but it is now much safer.

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