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Aug 16, 2014 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
Since its inception, Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) water treatment plant at Shelter Belt has been dumping the back wash from its filters (sludge) into the Irving and Church Streets canals, thereby silting them and clogging the drainage system. This dumping by GWI only becomes a problem during the rainy season when the silted canals are unable to convey their design capacity of flood waters to the sluices/pumps and the back-up run-off inundates adjoining lowland properties in the City, causing extensive damage.
A few days ago personnel from Mayor and City Council (M&CC) and the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development (MLGRD) met at the site for a photo-op in an attempt to assure the Citizenry that once again they will be examining the situation with the view of finding a lasting solution to a recurring problem.
Unfortunately over the years neither M&CC nor MLGRD has put forward any concrete proposal to resolve the problem in the long term, but only to pacify flooded victims in the short term by providing a dragline with two trucks to partially de-silt the canals when flooding occurs – a show that something is being done.
As an affected citizen I wish to suggest the following proposal as a long term solution to this festering problem.
There is a plot of M&CC land between Vlissengen Road and Shiv Chanderpaul Drive and bordering Church Street on the north and North Road on the south. A compartmentalized settling pond could be dug on this site 5ft. below grade and empoldered by a low dam built with the excavated soil. Two low level weirs constructed on the dam will allow sediment-free water from the pond to discharge safely into the Church Street and North Road Canals.
The silt-laden back wash from the treatment plant could be pumped into the settling pond. Over time the pond will be silted, but its compartments could be selectively allowed to dry and the accumulated silt excavated and trucked away to a suitable dump site. The pond could also be used to rear tilapias and provide a recreational facility for anglers, if properly managed.
In effect the settling pond will function as an enlarged septic tank with no smell.
Charles Sohan
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