No completion date for Carrot Bay revetment project
Efforts to complete the Carrot Bay revetment project remain ongoing, but Works Minister Kye Rymer was hesitant to offer a date for the project’s completion when he was asked for a projection recently.
The minister said: “Based on how things happen, sometimes there’s a delay with the material there, other issues with variations and so forth. So, I don’t want to give a completion date as yet but I can give updates as to the progress of the works.”
Work on the project began in May to restore and reinforce the shoreline against any major changes that may be caused by natural elements. On completion, Rymer said the work will protect the shoreline from events such as hurricanes which bring heavy wind and wave action, sea surges and ground seas.
“The ministry has long recognised critical areas in need of coastal protection within the territory. During the events of 2017, we saw the way floods and two category-five hurricanes made the residents of Carrot Bay vulnerable where complete roadways were washed away,” Rymer said.
“Therefore, this project serves as a proactive response to ensure that the residents of Carrot Bay, [and the] coastal sea defence is equipped to protect the people not only of Carrot Bay but motorists, pedestrians, and visitors that traverse the area in the face of climate change and rising sea levels,” he added.
Jeremy Hodge, the acting Director of the Public Works Department, previously said that the project’s objective is to break the wave of the sea at about 45 feet high to prevent it from coming onto the roadway.
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A good opportunity to put a pedestrian walkway along the shore now that the space from the road has been increased. Carrot Bay village – wouldn’t take much to make occasional benches for residents and visitors alike to meet and a place for fisherman to cook up some fresh fish on site.
If the headcoach was still around this project woulda done been completed
Paid to dig it out , paid to dump it!
We should also take this opportunity to lay pipes that can be used as sleeves for electricity lines, making the territory more resilient! This should be done all around the islands whenever they dig! The actual cables can be put later but prepare the infrastructure for them!!
It’s plumb ugly. Why couldnt we have built a proper sea wall with a promenade along the front?
Coach was to buzy for is own project
@them playing games, if head coach was around, he would have taken our money to finish it AND still give the greedy contractors their money. So let them greedy HEARTS get weak and finish the job. UK watching, Thanks!
Once PWD INVOLVE we have problems because they only pocketing monies especially the two J’s Accounts and Roads they running PWD brokes and he blind a** can’t see that
EXACTLY MINISTER THATS HOW THE WORK CANT FINISH BECAUSE THEY THIEFING THE MONEY FROM THE SAME VARIATIONS BECAUSE IF UCLAIM THOSE PEOPLE ARE EXPERTS AT THEIR JOBS THEN WHY SO MUCH SO CALLED MISTAKES STILL OR THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT THE PUBLIC TO THINK
They are not using the plastic-coated steel that is required for that job….They are using regular steel in the salt water which will be rotted in no time
A promenade would transform Carrot Bay
Ask Tourism Board where that 6million dollars gone? HC talk about beautifying under the name of tourists. Bug that money was the so call Carrot Bay project. Pure kickbacks And nothing not developed in Carrot Bay after 3 years and the budget spent! Ask the Sprout girl!
Never
with a sizable kickback…
Basically all we’ve done is add a lot of ammunition
For the hurricane to throw at our houses.
Let’s see, how long did it take to do Peebles? How long did it take to install the incinerator at Pockwood after it was purchased? Answer is pushing decades. Same old questions were asked 25 years ago. We have not learned, nor does it seem we want to learn, so the govt is still squandering the public purse. No reason is provided for the delays.
Construction management is a myth here as is the notion of liquidated damages. Was there design for this wall? A bid spec? Who bid the job? How was it verified they had the necessary equipment and personnel? Etc, etc.
What ah set ah jack donkeys!
He’d have a few extra dollars for his house too!