A multi-million-dollar initiative has been launched to tackle persistent sewage leakage in the Beetham Gardens community. During a visit to the work site today, Minister in the Ministry of Public Utilities, Clyde Elder said the introduction of new technology will ensure efficiency in WASA’s waste water system.
Minister in the Ministry of Public Utilities, Clyde Elder says the new technology employed in this project will adequately address the Water and Sewerage Authority’s leaking Waste Water plant in Beetham Gardens.
“What the contract will be doing is a special type of technology they will be using where instead of digging the earth from on top they’re going to more or less, my words now, drilling horizontally. And what that will entail is that they will be using equipment along with water to make the earth into a slushy and that is then going to be sucked out into a storage tank which is then going to be taken away. So it makes it easier for the traveling and the using public to continue to use the roadway.”
Minister Elder indicated that a firm from the People’s Republic of China, Sinohydro Corporation Limited is the main contractor on the multi million dollar project.
“Have this project completed in a much shortage of time, one, with minimized cost too because there be less repaving of the surface when they are finished. I anticipate that this project is going to take maybe just about 9 months or so. So it should be finished within the first quarter of next year. So I want the residents to know that there is going to be some relief coming within the first quarter of next year and at just about 19 million dollars.”
An engineer from SinoHydro, Fei Yang, said his company is committed to completing the project within budget.
“Regarding this project, we will use trench lace technology to build the bye pass along the existing south trunk lane after that we will make the connection. Our aim is to finish this project on time, safely and the best quality.”
Minister Elder noted that the project will help to ensure a more efficient waste water system.