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City hall gears for rainy season

May 04, 2013 News

The cash strapped Georgetown municipality has pledged to do its best to control flooding in affected areas of the city during the rainy seasons.
“City Hall is mobilised with financial resources for the May/June rains.”
Mayor of Georgetown, Hamilton Green, stated at a recent press conference “that all the necessary steps have been taken to prepare for the forthcoming rainy season. City Hall will do what we can to control flooding.
“We don’t have inexhaustible financial and other resources available, but we hope that with other stakeholders on board we can do what we can to control flooding in the capital city.”
With the restoration of the Georgetown project, the Mayor is optimistic about what can be done to improve the city’s drainage systems.
“We talk of millions of dollars to clear and concrete these canals and who knows, if the restoration project may even propose the opening of some canals that we closed.” Mayor Green also said that an unthinking municipality had blocked many essential drainage systems around Georgetown.
“Independence Boulevard, Merriman’s Mall and other canals acted as reservoirs particularly during rainfall but these have been filled following the colonial ages where the Dutch designed this city bearing in mind that we are below sea level, this compromised the welfare of the city during heavy rainfall.”
“The implementation of the public relations sub -committee is to reconfigure the minds of citizens on how to care the city,” Green added.
City Engineer, Lloyd Alleyne said that a comprehensive programme was prepared and installed for the rainy season.  The programme extends from April to September.
“We have installed additional sluice gates to facilitate extreme high tides… we have also informed sluice and pump attendants and established engineers who will be on watch at this time.”
The Civil Defence Committee is on standby, the officials added.

 

 

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