Dutch Risk Reduction Team visits city’s main drainage stations

Jul 27, 2016 News

The DRR team, NDIA officials and M&CC officials looking at a sluice on Water Street.

The Dutch Risk Reduction (DRR) Team presently in Guyana for the next three months to create hydraulic drainage models for the city of Georgetown, yesterday visited pump stations around the capital.
At a ceremony yesterday at the Ministry of Agriculture, five Masters Students from Delft University in the Netherlands introduced themselves to the local agencies that they will be working along with until October 12, 2016.
The Dutch Team consists of Peter Vijn, Thijmen Yaspers Focks, Siebe Dorrepaul Yos Muller, and their team leader Joost Remmers. The young men are here on behalf of the DRR Team which visited Guyana last November. Two other students are expected to arrive at a later date.
Remmers at the ceremony said that his team will try to understand the drainage system in Georgetown and build on the work which was done by the previous DRR Team. He said that his team is excited by their arrival in Guyana, and hopes that they can do a good job so as to make contributions for a better and safer Georgetown.
The DRR Team was accompanied by National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) officials, M&CC’s City Engineer Colvern Venture, acting Mayor Sherod Duncan and other councillors on the visits to various sites around Georgetown.
Among the sites visited were the sluices along Water Street in Kingston, the Kitty Pump station, Liliendaal Pump station, and also the drainage systems in South Ruimveldt and North Ruimveldt.
The purpose of the visits were so that the DRR team could familiarise themselves with the drainage and pumping mechanisms utilised in Georgetown as well as the drainage and irrigation system around the city.
The Liliendaal system, which is believed to be the most inefficient since two existing pumps are unable to drain the catchment area, was studied extensively by the team yesterday.
City Engineer Colvern Venture said that following the visits to the various sites, the DRR team will be going into the fields to study the groundwork in order to enable them to build a suitable hydraulic model for the city.

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