Week four of city clean-up campaign concludes

Dec 04, 2015 News

As ‘Georgetown on the move’ community clean up concludes week four of six, City Hall says that the contractors are fulfilling their obligations satisfactorily.
On Wednesday, during a visit to the South and North Ruimveldt areas, Public Relations Officer Debra Lewis, speaking of the more than $75M investment, said while there are some minor hiccups, “we are satisfied with most of the contractors who have completed on average 75 percent of the work ahead of schedule.”
The work entailed cleaning and de-silting of street drains, alleyways, weeding of parapets and verges.
In some locations, trees had to be removed from the reserves. As the community cleaning continues, findings revealed that residents used alleyways as disposal facilities for old mattresses, furniture, appliances and general kitchen waste.
In some cases there were vehicles and vehicular parts found that had to be removed.
“In North Ruimveldt, one contractor Ricardo Blackman reported that his works are progressing to the point that there is little to no flooding in spots that are normally prone to inundation whenever it rains.”
His team was busy cleaning several alleyways when this publication visited the location, much to the pleasure of most of the residents.
However some residents who have grown accustomed to blocked drains, and having what are termed illegal constructions, were not happy and complained bitterly.
Meanwhile, as a result of the cleaning exercise they praised the fact that their community is thus far devoid of the usual flooding.
In some cases the workmen had to clear out as much as four feet of silted up drains.
Blackman during an interview echoed the sentiments of many contractors who are engaged in the community clean up exercise from Agricola on the East Bank to Cummings Lodge on the East Coast of Demerara: “All I’m begging the residents to do is to avoid causing the drains being blocked with overgrowth again and to stop the dumping, because we ending up finding snakes and crocodiles that could be a danger to them.”
On Wednesday alone more than three anacondas were caught during clean up exercises of which the small ones were killed and left on the roadway “to scare dirty residents” while bigger ones were reportedly sent to the Guyana Zoological Park. (Mondale Smith)

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