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Kumaka Landing again in dire jeopardy

Mar 01, 2012 News

 

…engineers abandon faulty revetment works  

Speedboat operators in Region One, (Barima/Waini), are calling the incomplete ‘wooden sheet pile revetment’ at Kumaka Landing “a waste of taxpayers’ money.”
Engineers from the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) who were tasked with undertaking the revetment works halted their operations when the facility started to collapse again.
According to one of the local boat captains, the physical revetment works commenced at the prime loading area some four months ago, but he reiterated that the facility’s foundation has been eroding for several years now.
The boat captain who spoke with this publication, on the condition of anonymity, stated that the flaws in the revetment were only revealed when the engineers commenced reinforcing the structure’s foundation with mud.
He explained that this “pressured” the revetment causing it to slip.
“Right now the revetment skin-open and water coming in, and is the same thing happening, the landing eroding…Look how much taxpayers’ money they keep wasting,” the man lamented.
Recently elected Regional Vice-Chairman, Fermin Singh, has conceded that the engineering works have proven to be faulty, but he assured that it will be rectified soon.
Singh said that he was given this assurance by T&HD workers. The water levels of the river could prove to be a challenge.
He insists that the incomplete work is owing to poor engineering.
The Vice-Chairman says that at the beginning of the construction work, all materials required to erect the structure were in place, but he opined that the engineers did not properly plan the works.
“The engineers drove the anchor piles and then placed the wooden sheet piles, but did not tie the two with steel rods. This was the case even though there was material to bind the two.”
Singh explained that when the workers filled in the mud, the revetment started to collapse and “since then no further works were done.”
He said that since the 1970s no rehabilitation works were executed on the structure, which serves as a key loading dock for the region.

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