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DDL, household waste not cause of Little Diamond stench – EPA to continue investigations

Nov 15, 2011 News

 

The source of the odour emanating from the waterways within the vicinity of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and Prospect, East Bank Demerara (EBD), for the past four months, still remains unknown.
Samples taken by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and tested by the Guyana Sugar Corporation laboratory proved that neither DDL nor neighbouring residents were responsible for the stench.
According to Sharifae Razack, Director Education Information Training Division, of EPA, based on the readings there is no association of the effluent from DDL and household waste and the area in which the smell emanates.
Razack noted that the agency will have to conduct further investigations to ascertain if other activities in the area could be the cause of the stench.
This puts to rest residents’ suspicions that DDL was responsible for the stench. Residents had claimed that the company was releasing its waste water into the waterway since the koker used to release waste water into the Demerara River was undergoing construction
During the same period the odour started.
DDL had dismissed their notion from the inception. Shawn Caleb, Engineer Service Manager, DDL, had stated that while the company was executing construction works to its koker, a tractor pump was contracted to release the waste water into the Demerara River.
Some residents had refused to believe that, and took the company’s move to voluntarily utilize its resources to excavate trenches within the Little Diamond community as a cover-up for its misdeed. Caleb had noted that the company was only doing its duty as a good corporate citizen.
Nonetheless, while the EPA is gearing for another investigation, marine life remains vulnerable to whatever the source of the stench is.

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