No timetable set for Third District sewerage relief! – Hon. Vanterpool
“Is there any plan by this government to develop the sewerage system in the Third District?” the resident questioned.
Responding during a National Democratic Party (NDP) community meeting held in Sea Cows Bay on April 29, 2013, Minister for Communications and Works Hon. Mark H. Vanterpool told the resident that the community remained on a priority list for the time being.
He advised that the government is trying to resolve the Territory’s sewerage issues in the most vexing area at the moment, which was the East End/Long Look Community. “That’s something that we are trying to resolve as quickly as possible,” Hon. Vanterpool stated.
He indicated further that the Road Town area was another of particular concern. “In the Road Town area, a lot of the pipes that have been there for 40 years or so are collapsing and we’re trying to get that resolved before it becomes an embarrassment in the town,” he added.
According to the Works Minister, “We are also concerned about the issue that the sewage that is not being treated to the highest level as it should [and] is being pumped out into the sea in the Duffs Bottom area… Slaney going up to the water there,” he noted.
The Minister told the residents assembled that government plans to address that situation as soon as possible in attempts to mitigate and reduce it.
He explained that plans are being drafted to build a sewerage treatment plant in the area across from Fort Burt to be able to treat the sewage to a point where effluent that is put out at sea is not harmful.
Hon Vanterpool then related that “Sea Cows Bay is the third most important area for us to tackle when we want to tackle the sewerage programme, so as [soon as] we have completed the East End/Long Look and the Road Town area, we’re going to move towards Sea Cows Bay as the next natural area to move to, to try to hook the Sea Cows Bay area into the sewerage programme that we will be establishing…”
The resident then shouted a request asking whether there was a timetable attached to the project’s fruition.
But Hon. Vanterpool said, “I honestly won’t want to give you a timetable because I don’t have one for that.”
He advised that there was a possibility that the East End Long Look project may be completed within the next two years and offered that the Sea Cows Bay issue would be ‘tackled’ sometime after that.
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