THE BARBADOS WATER AUTHORITY (BWA) has turned to a City pipeline which has not been used for ten years in order to stop sewage escaping on the vital South Coast tourist belt.
With one eye on the tourist winter season, a major foreign exchange earner, and the festive Christmas season, general manager Keithroy Halliday and his team started restoring a lift plant in Bridgetown to transfer some of the pressure from the blocked South Coast to the Bridgetown Wastewater Treatment line.
Periodically for more than a year, sewage from the South Coast Wastewater Treatment Plant bound for the sea, has been forcing its way through manholes, flooding the streets and creating a national crisis as motorists and pedestrians manoeuvre through the health hazard. The stench has also affected hotels and restaurants on the coastline.
But on Tuesday night in a show of confidence, officials from the BWA and a team of stakeholders that included tourism officials, health experts and engineers, held a working dinner at Tapas, one of the popular eateries on the South Coast which has remained open despite some cancellations. Fast-food restaurant Chicken Barn closed its Worthing branch last Saturday. (AC)
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