95% complete! Full repairs to incinerator delayed by death and holidays
The electrical works to the control panel for the Solid Waste Incinerator plant at Pockwood Pond is now 95 percent completed and is awaiting certification from a specialist from its manufacturers.
Minister for Health Carvin Malone told BVI News that the recent passing of the owner of Skelton Electrics Limited, Oliver Skelton, coupled with the holidays that followed delayed the completion of the repair in December.
“I am cautious not to give a specific date, but 95 percent of the electrical connection to the control panel has been done, but because it was so close to Christmas, we could not get the folks from the manufacturers to come down before Christmas and therefore had to wait until they reopened this year which is now in January,” Minister Malone stated.
“We are trying to get the set date for the manufacturer to send their engineers to certify that the electrical connections were done as specified, and then we can operate the incinerator again,” he added.
The Health Minister further said measures are being undertaken to prevent a repeat of the November 2018 disaster which resulted in the incinerator being damaged.
“Once the connections and the wiring have been certified, we will continue to train the operators so that safety measures are placed within the system so that we can sense if there are any overheating or issues that need to be corrected. Also, the maintenance of the system is very important so we are going to make sure that is done and we can have it checked, certified and examined periodically,” Malone stated.
Since the incinerator was out of commission, the Department of Waste Management has been using a landfill to dispose of the piles of waste, which would have otherwise been incinerated.
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But when will they install the scrubber to help alleviate the pollution when the incinerator is running?
Have some patience! Geez… you doing like if the government and the minister not doing anything at all. They said that the scrubber is in the works. Give them a chance. This is not the NDP. Look how much has happened and is happening under the new government. You just can’t please some people.
@ Patience – You obviously don’t get the smoke from the incinerator….. Those of us in the line of fire have been suffering for many, many, many years –
Why don’t you switch houses with them until its completed???…
The goal post has shifted AGAIN
you are clearly ignorant. Babies, elderly and other citizens have been poisoned consistently over a 2 year period. How dare you say such insensitive things without having any knowledge on this matter.
As co owner of the first recycling cooperation registered here in the BVI
Tell the government to give us a try ,where we have a viable solution for the problem also creating jobs in the process
Buy a glass crusher, tuck it in west corner of Brandywine and fill up the beach – or sell at cost to households that dont neeed a yard of sand for sandbags, gardens etc… Voila 50% of garbage disappears