The man at the helm when the South Coast Sewerage Project was being built warns that the current situation with sewage water flowing in the streets should be treated as “a public health emergency”.
Dr Hugh Sealy, project director at the Sewerage and Solid Waste Project Unit from 1994 to 1997, said yesterday: “If you have raw sewage discharged through manholes in the street, that is a public health issue that has to be dealt with. You are going to have pathogens in that water.”
Referring to the putrid water flowing through manholes on the South Coast, Sealy said: “You have cars passing through that water spraying that water up into the air . . . It is not a healthy situation and the Government should be treating it as a public health emergency.”
Sealy told the DAILY NATION the South Coast Sewerage Project was designed, constructed and commissioned under the Ministry of Health in the 1990s and then transferred to the Barbados Water Authority for operation and maintenance. (GC)
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