Got TIPS or BREAKING NEWS? Please call 1-284-442-8000 direct/can also WhatsApp same number or Email ALL news to:newsvino@outlook.com;                               ads call 1-284-440-6666

RT sewerage project gets underway

- Work visible in vicinity of Noel Lloyd Action Movement Park
The area dug for the pipes. Photo: Aneka Edwards/VINO
Ten contractors have been hired to execute the project. Photo: VINO
Ten contractors have been hired to execute the project. Photo: VINO
The pipes are replacing the old ones that collapsed. Photo: VINO
The pipes are replacing the old ones that collapsed. Photo: VINO
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The smelly issue of sewerage is on the verge of being rectified with the first step of replacing old pipes commencing yesterday Saturday, March 4, 2012 in the vicinity of the Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park.

One of the overseers of the project Lemuel "Chi-Chi" Smith of CBE Engineering Associates told Virgin Islands News Online that, “CBE is pleased that the project has gotten underway.”

“We are making tremendous progress in the parking lot area and we expect to be out of this area on Monday afternoon, March 5 so that we could go back to some normalcy for Tuesday morning where persons should be able to park, and not disrupt businesses,” he revealed.

According to Mr. Smith, the pipes that are being laid are re-routed from the old ones, which had collapsed, adding “for now we are just laying the pipes for the connection.”

The next leg of the project, Smith added, will begin in a few weeks behind CIBC FirstCaribbean Bank between Palm Grove all the way up to Vanterpool’s Pharmacy and Bobby’s Supermarket.

“It will be done in sections, and will be somewhat out of the traffic. We will have trucks going in and out of the traffic but we don’t foresee any traffic impeding for any great extent anyway,” Smith added. Luke Derrick is the other overseer of the project.

Ten local contractors have been hired by the Ministry of Communications and Works to carry out the works. It is costing Government $866,681.

At the contract signing on February 3, 2012 the subject Minister Hon. Mark Vanterpool disclosed that “$588,000 are for the contractors, the purchase orders cost $128,908 and the agreements for the purchase orders amount to $149,088.”

Meanwhile, on August 12, 2010, CBE Engineering Associates signed a $1,976,307.50 contract with the then Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government for the management, engineering and construction supervision services for the national sewerage project that comprised East End and Road Town.

For the Road Town aspect, CBE conducted the construction management for the inspection of over 2,500 feet of existing sewers in the city’s service area for the identification of sewer lines that are in need of repairs and /or replacement.

Furthermore, the engineering design, programme and construction management for the removal and replacement of approximately 2,000 feet of abandoned or compromised gravity sewers in the Road Town service area were also concluded.

17 Responses to “RT sewerage project gets underway”

  • boys on the block_ (04/03/2012, 08:57) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    The bvi must say thanks to julien frazer for his vision to get this project moving and the ndp for not trying to get out of it!
    • ooooo (04/03/2012, 09:23) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      say thanks for dr dolittle too for he did a lot despite what ndp was saying
  • ice cream (04/03/2012, 11:00) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    this is good news regardless of who did what.
    • yellow (05/03/2012, 05:36) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      cavin still doing good under ndp or vip...well saw!
      • confused (06/03/2012, 10:20) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        @yellow says You want him to do bad? These ghosts of Willy Lynch need to go sit down!
  • Crank Shaft (04/03/2012, 11:36) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!! Look real action now! Ya'll can stay there crying over spill milk, we knew VIP had no team and was fractured, never to return as long as the dictator liberator is there. This is how you run a country! PRIORITIES! While we needed this to be fixed Fraser was busy paving private roads in Havers and building his private marina. Thank him for what? Give it a rest!
    • Sprinkles (04/03/2012, 14:24) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Well said Crank Shaft plus look how NDP or should I say the Government in power has been giving us monthly updates on what actions they have taken, carrying out village meetings, etc. IT TRULY FEELS LIKE OUR VIEWS MATTER AND WE PLAY A PART IN THE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE
      • do nothing (05/03/2012, 04:30) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        But I keep asking what has the NDP done in four months beside victimizing indigenous BVIslanders and carrying on VIP projects?? Can someone tell we? Oh!!!! I thought so, NOTHING, NOTHING, we will have to call them the new do nothing NDP!
    • Fools (04/03/2012, 17:08) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Crank Shaft you got your nose so far up Billy's a$$ that you can't see that Fraser is the one who master minded all these sewage projects that Mark and the NDP are here taking credit for. As for the work Fraser did in Harvers that you can't seem to get over, we the people down here in Havers will make the NDP pay for your ignorance come next election.
      • Crank Shaft (05/03/2012, 13:23) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        Boo hoo hooo!! LOL!! Did I hit a nerve? Boss, unlike you Fraser disciples, I got my own mind, I do what I WANT TO, I don't depend on anybody to sway me of give me anything so you can stop there with your shit. Truth hurts, but liars don't really get that!! HAHAHAHAHHHAAH!!! Make me pay for ignorance? You kidding? LOL! I don't depend on Government for nothing BOSS, so wheeeeel and come again!!!
  • Village Girl (05/03/2012, 09:51) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    hope this mess is clean up for business day tommrow tuesday for me aint able to be up and down looking for parking!!!
    • Village Girl U mad (05/03/2012, 13:46) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Come on Village Girl --- Tis people like you!! Have patience gal! Chow girl!!
      • in the news (05/03/2012, 23:34) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        i agree with village girl..I hope the mess is gone and also the smell in road town!
  • label (06/03/2012, 02:35) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    good job cavin
  • with (06/03/2012, 08:51) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    happy to see at least the place fix back.
  • Hmmm (06/03/2012, 17:17) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Pipes look small as $hi% to me. I hope they know their $hi% because it would be a shame if they didnt know how big their pipes should be. Anyway hopefully they know how to Do their Do :):):):)


Create a comment


Create a comment

Disclaimer: Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) welcomes your thoughts, feedback, views, bloggs and opinions. However, by posting a blogg you are agreeing to post comments or bloggs that are relevant to the topic, and that are not defamatory, liable, obscene, racist, abusive, sexist, anti-Semitic, threatening, hateful or an invasion of privacy. Violators may be excluded permanently from making contributions. Please view our declaimer above this article. We thank you in advance for complying with VINO's policy.

Follow Us On

Disclaimer: All comments posted on Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) are the sole views and opinions of the commentators and or bloggers and do not in anyway represent the views and opinions of the Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Virgin Islands News Online and its parent company.