Hope canal works moving a pace

Apr 13, 2009 News

The technical work as it relates to studies and designs of the Conservancy Relief Channel at Hope, East Coast Demerara is moving apace.
Kaieteur News was told yesterday that efforts to compensate the homeowners who had to move to facilitate this project are also going well.
The valuation and identification of alternatives are to be completed soon.
Yesterday an official close to the project told Kaieteur News that this will allow for specific packages of market-based compensation to be made to those affected.
Several meetings have been held by the inter-agency group coordinating the assessment and those to be affected, the official added.
According to the official, the project is of national priority and all those involved are being urged not only to carry out sound work but also to stick to the time frame.
In the 2009 budget, $2B has been allocated for the project, which will facilitate an alternative discharge outlet for the East Demerara Water Conservancy.
Technical assessment of the EDWC and its flow system by both local and international experts indicated that the conservancy requires an additional outlet in order to improve its safety standards in responding to extreme storm events.
Hydraulic modeling of the EDWC was carried out in 2004 under the Hydrology and Water Resources study for Guyana D&I Rehabilitation Project and further updated in 2005 by the TFIR, which provides analytical output from which recommendations were derived in improving the flow and discharge system.
The Final report of the TFIR, 2005, prepared by experts from Mott MacDonald, local engineers with input for Engineers out of Holland, recommends that a new outlet be constructed, probably the size of the Land of Caanan sluice.
During his budget presentation, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, said that rainfall patterns and water level recordings have indicated that rainfall water accumulation along the North/East section of the conservancy takes a much longer period to discharge through the eastern relief structures, thus the need for a new outlet to the Atlantic.
As such, he had said, a decision was taken to construct a new outlet at Hope/Douch Four.
Implementation of the project requires technical studies and assessment, he said, in developing the most suitable structural design and operation procedures for the outlet.
Earlier this year, President Bharrat Jagdeo had said that the project is massive and requires greater engineering capability than Guyana possesses.
The Head of State clearly stated that he wanted the project to be done by a ‘good international engineering firm.’
The Conservancy Relief Canal will be a minimum of 80 feet wide.
Preliminary works have been carried out with the identification of a 300-foot wide reserve for the project.
This canal will be east of where the school is at Hope.
The new structure will not go where the Hope outfall is; it will be a separate formation.
This structure is expected to bring relief to residents of the Mahaica and Mahaicony communities that are under flood threat each time the water levels in EDWC goes up to a critical point.

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