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A hydrological study is coming next year. (FP)

By Carlos Atwell | Fri, March 23, 2012 - 12:08 AM

Discoloured water from the Bowmanston pumping station should become a thing of the past once a hydrological study is done next year.

That study will be one facet of the 2011 to 2016 US$50 million Inter-American Development Bank project, entitled the Water and Sanitation System Upgrade Project, which will also include a mains replacement programme; an island-wide water meter-replacement programme; a computer system overhaul; a wastewater upgrade and reuse plan and more.

Lawrence Cumberbatch, project manager of the Barbados Water Authority (BWA)-IDB project said yesterday: “When the rain falls at Bowmanston, we have to shut down the station because of the turbidity [cloudiness] of the water. The first thing we are going to do is look at it in a comprehensive way; look at what the solutions are.”

Cumberbatch spoke to the media during BWA’s fun day at the Bridgefield playing field, St Thomas.

Read the full story in today's WEEKEND NATION.

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Posted by Tony Webster 1 year, 2 months ago: Strange and stranger. Without a $50 million-dollar loan, and "expectations" that we need "only" to wait for another year for a real solution, please remember that our fore-fathers who professionally ran the then Waterworks dept (recalling Nicky Sealy, Woody Richardson et al), did a darn sight better than all the high-sounding words and promises continually being churned-out, ad nauseum. If Nicky Sealy (May he rest in Peace) had been allowed to ulitise the $33million carefully accumulated by BWA for mains replacement, (instead of this being dumped into the Consolidated fund)he would be -deservedly- be hailed a s a hero and a statue - or a fountain- of erected in his honour!