No more flooding in PoS - mayor
Posted: Tuesday, October 19, 2004

By Peter Balroop, www.guardian.co.tt

Port-of-Spain mayor Murchison Brown was exultant yesterday morning as he predicted that with the acquisition of a spanking new $1.2 million dredger, the city would no longer suffer from flooding.

He was at the corner of South Quay and Charlotte Street, where the dredger’s hose was sucking up plastic bottles, fast food boxes and pieces of brick from an underground drain when he made the prediction.

Brown said the machine, which was the first to be acquired by a local government municipality, would be pressed into daily use by city engineer Edwin Yuk Low and his staff to take preventative measures against flooding in the city.

The mayor told journalists that the City Corporation was thinking seriously of investing in another dredger from the agents, Tracmac, who had provided yeoman service in training staffers to use the machine.

He said flooding in Port-of-Spain was a major problem, with clogging of underground drains the major bugbear, and he was overjoyed to have the means to combat the scourge.

However, he urged burgesses to refrain from using the underground drainage system as a dumping ground, which was the end result when they threw their refuse outside of bins.

Brown said corporation workers would no longer have to risk their health going into the drains to clear garbage.

He gave a definite thumbs-down to the suggestion that the corporation would co-operate with other municipalities and lend the services of its dredger if such a request came his way.

"I have no intention of so doing," he declared.

Brown also urged motorists who used the city’s facilities to comply with the parking regulations, as a heightened drive to ease traffic jams in the city began yesterday.

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