RT sewerage project gets underway
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.
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