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Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is faced with the challenge of managing critical sewage chambers in the city even as it awaits the arrival of more than 20 submersible pumps for the urgent upgrade of the sewerage system.GWI,Cheap NFL Jerseys, earlier this year, inked a US$422,560 contract with FCT Technologies Incorporated of Miami,Cheap Basketball Jerseys, Florida, for the supply of 28 submersible waste water pumps for the upgrade of the sewerage system in the city.However,China Jerseys Free Shipping, Minister of Housing and Water, Irfaan Ali, had in May informed that he was forced to terminate that contract because he was not satisfied that the contractor would fulfil his obligation within the stipulated time.He had divulged that the contract for the supply of the pumps was re-advertised locally as well as in Trinidad, Brazil and was posted on the Inter-American Development Bank and the GWI websites.Minister Ali had noted, then, that a civil works component for the pumping station was also advertised with the total cost of the projects being in the vicinity of about $300M.The pumps, Ali disclosed yesterday, are likely to arrive in the country by the end of next month based on information from the selected contracted supplier.Challenges in the sewerage, Ali said, have been overwhelming in the Tiger Bay area,Sale NFL Jerseys, particularly in the vicinity of the Municipal Abattoir. As a result,Wholesale Jerseys, he noted that constant clearing and cleaning of that area is essential in order to ease the situation of congestion in the sewerage system.“We have had a lot of problems with these areas…In fact we have a few critical chambers around the city that we are constantly clearing and cleaning…” GWI officials, as a result, are constantly monitoring the system even as efforts are made to enforce the law as it relates to restaurants and other similar businesses use of grease traps, Ali asserted.The overall system,Cheap Jerseys, he said, is however bolstered with the upgrade of the Tucville Sewerage System.Further, he noted that through education programmes intensified efforts are being made to raise awareness on how citizens could help to preserve the sewerage system.Nonetheless,NFL Jerseys Cheap, additional measures to improve the system will be engaged as early as this weekend, according to Minister Ali. He related that a contract has already been awarded and works on 21 pumping stations will commence.“We already had the coordinated group meetings with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company and other service providers to inform them about the plan of action, the project description and so on.So by the end of the year we are looking to have at least five of the stations rehabilitated and if the pumps are here we could have those five stations connected…”The Minister is therefore optimistic that the entire rehabilitation of the sewerage system will be completed by March next year.And while the investment will be put into effect this year, the Minister had cautioned previously that “this would not be the solution for the sewerage system in Georgetown.”He explained that the project will simply provide a platform or a window of opportunity of about three to five years in which a holistic plan to address the complete rehabilitation of the system could be derived.“We have already prepared a Terms of Reference for a holistic plan for the sewerage system in Georgetown and that will be done next year through consultancy,” Minister Ali had highlighted.And to aid that intended project, the Minister disclosed that already some health indicators have been identified which will be the basis for a study to improve the system. And according to the Minister, the University of Guyana would be awarded a contract to conduct the study to draw the correlations between the health indicators and the sewerage system. |
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