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Buxton $78M sluice given new deadline for completion

Mar 09, 2014 News

After being delayed for almost two years, the $78M sluice being constructed at Buxton, East Coast Demerara may finally be completed by June.
Chief Executive Officer of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), Lionel Wordsworth on Friday said that a work programme presented by the supervisory consultant, E&A Consultant, stretches over three months, commencing this month.
Construction of the sluice commenced in November 2011 and had one-year duration. The project is undertaken by Colin Talbot Contracting Services. The contractor was unable to complete the task due to inaccessibility of materials, poor weather conditions, and design change.
According to Wordsworth, the contractor was unable to access timber piling for six weeks from July 18, 2012 to August 31, 2012 since there was a shortage.
“Because of the low demand and high cost for these steel sheet piles, local companies don’t readily have them in stock. These had to be sourced externally which took some time,” he added.
Another setback was that the foreshore did not allow for deep penetration of the strata to accommodate a coffer dam for the construction of the northern section of the structure north of the sea defence.
As such, advice was sought from Sea Defence Department and NDIA is concluding the connection of the sluice to the sea defence, which will see the completion of the project.
In addition, poor weather conditions in September 2012 prevented the pouring of concrete for the foundation. However, this was rectified by the construction of an access road.
He noted that the communities of Buxton and Friendship were designed to drain via a pump- sluice combination, whereby a fixed pump empties the water into a basin which drains via a sluice.
However, the existing sluice has a flume/discharge box deep below the seawall which suffers from heavy siltation, thereby not allowing the basin to drain. As such, NDIA placed a mobile pump to drain the discharge basin, he noted.
“The new sluice being built is designed with a vertical lift gate to allow for free flow discharge in an open channel arrangement from the high level pump discharge basin onto the foreshore and will not suffer from foreshore accretion. The new sluice will provide a more efficient and reliable discharge of water from the drainage system,” Wordsworth said.
According to Wordsworth, if the contractor is at fault in completing the project in a timely manner, the NDIA would have to apply penalties under the contract.

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