The Municipality made efforts to put the Mandela dumpsite to productive use

Dec 02, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Municipality of Georgetown wishes to apologise profusely for the inconvenience and potential health hazard faced by the residents, who live in the area contiguous to the Le Repentir landfill dumpsite.
When we had the last fire, we put in place a number of measures to avoid a repeat of this situation: those measures included security and improved earth cover.
The litter pickers were summoned to several meetings cheered by the Mayor and given fair guidelines for the activities at the said dumpsite.
All the above were done within our limited human and financial resources. The public need to be aware of all aspects of this unfortunate situation.
First, circumstances beyond the municipality, this landfill site was established in the year 1993, and was expected to last for two years.
Second, the new IDB/Governmental arrangement should have been completed by 2007. We have been told that the new landfill facility will he open sometime during 2010.
We have therefore in the intervening period tried to maintain the existing landfill facility, which receives waste including an increase of old tyres from not only Georgetown City, but areas outside of the City in excess of 260 tons per day.
Third, and very important, the municipality as a result of overseas contacts secured the interest of an operator willing to help manage the landfill site to produce electricity with an undertaking that resident in the contiguous areas should benefit from reduce electricity cost.
The Municipality wrote Government seeking its support and permission to proceed with this project. This of course required GPL/Government agreement to put the extra electricity generated into that national grid.
The Mayor having not received a reply from the Ministry took the opportunity at a meeting with the Head of State to raise this matter.
At that meeting the Head of State expressed a preference to pursue the question of Hydro Power. The Municipality makes no further comments to this reaction. The public must recognise the efforts of the Municipality to put the landfill site to productive use.
The original IDB project envisages funds for the fencing of the entire area, but that aspect of the project was removed to maintain the original cost to the project.
Robert Williams, J.P.
Deputy Mayor

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