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Works still ongoing at Haag Bosch dump site

Sep 28, 2010 News

Some two months after the Haag Bosch Dumpsite was scheduled for opening, the Mayor and City Council is still waiting on a response from the Ministry of Local Government in relation to an interim dumpsite.

The Haag Bosch site which is located at Eccles Industrial site was expected to phase out the existing Mandela dump site.
Given the delay, the Mayor and City Council had penned a letter to the Ministry asking for a location to open an interim dumpsite since Mandela has out lived its capacity.
Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green, said that they are now looking at using an old burial area in the Le Repentir Cemetery as an interim dumpsite.
The Mayor explained that based on the response they have got from the contractors responsible for the Haag Bosch site, the site may be ready by January.
Mayor Green explained that as a result the council is now looking at opening up an area in the eastern side of the Le Repentir.
He however noted that an estimated $13M is needed to do minimal works for opening out the area. According to Mayor Green, the estimated $13 M will only provide for the construction of roads to gain access to the site.
The Mayor said that they are still awaiting a response from the Ministry.
Meanwhile, when this newspaper visited the Haag Bosch site yesterday works were ongoing.
However, this newspaper was told that no one is permitted on the site to take photographs.
The Haag Bosch location was selected with the help of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in 2000, according Hubert Urlin, Director of Solid Waste, and work on the landfill site is ongoing. Construction at the new site is being done by BK International and Puran Brothers at the cost of some US$9.7 million.
The contractors are tasked with constructing and operating the Haag Bosch site over a five to nine-year period. The site will be accessed by the Eccles Industrial Estate road and according to Urlin, measures will be taken to ensure that trucks taking garbage to the new site will be covered. He noted that the new site is a collection and treatment site.

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