HE SHOULD LEND HIS SKILLS TO CITY HALL ENGINEERS

Jun 25, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Something is fundamentality wrong with the composition of the city council’s engineering core. It is unbelievable that from year to year the city continues to flood and absolutely no one at city hall can produce any data to indicate the reason for this event. The whole country is aware of the location of the city but that should not negate the cause for this flooding during the rainy season. This clearly demonstrates two things: either city hall lacks the engineering science in its engineering department or it simply does not command engineering.
Flooding stems from several causes – record breaking rainfall, poor maintenance of drainage infrastructures; poor interpretation of rainfall data; faulty design to suit the existing infrastructures; inadequate storm water management design; poor data collection. Since there is no presentation by the city council from its engineers to outline steps that they are taking (from an engineering approach) this problem will persist for a long time.
City Council will always be the focal point during rainy seasons regardless of the stellar engineers at the Ministry of Public Infrastructure. The reason is not just for city hall to study but the people themselves since for years that local organ has being the place of complaints for flooding. Charles Ceres who is a long serving engineer in this country and has a full command of engineering science due to his overseas training should step in to save those engineers from any further embarrassment.
If he needs to work with them closely let that be or if there is a need for additional engineers with a command of engineering science then let that also be. But until then city hall will never be able to improve its methods of addressing inundation of the city, with its current engineering core.
Terrell Waveney Roberts

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