Rymer and team assess drainage ahead of TS Tammy
Communications & Works Minister Kye Rymer led a team through several areas of Road Town to assess the drainage situation ahead of Tropical Storm Tammy.
The delegation included Deputy Premier Lorna Smith; Health Minister Vincent Wheatley; Junior Minister for Agriculture Dr Karl Dawson; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Works, Elvia Smith-Maduro; Deputy Director at Public Works Department, Kurt Hodge; and delegates from the private sector.
Rymer said the walkthrough was necessary to ensure that the appropriate manpower was present and also to identify all the areas of concern ahead of the storm that is expected to affect the territory today.
“As we are expecting extensive rain on the weekend, we are back looking at our drainage and our ghuts to ensure that they are cleared,” Rymer said. “Where we need to hire private contractors, we are doing so. We are out walking and looking at all the ghuts in the town area, and from there we will look at some other areas of concern.”
Public Works Department (PWD) Director Jeremy Hodge, who was not present on the tour, said he hopes that this opens the door for formal policy development that will allow a better funded and streamlined process, allowing the Public Works Department to comprehensively prepare for the Atlantic Hurricane Season.
“The passage of Tropical Storm Phillipe opened a window allowing my department to better mobilise to clean up after the tropical storm that brought several inches of water,” Hodge stated. “The practice should allow for the PWD to be able to have the ability to carry out a significant cleaning of ghuts and drains than it normally would.”
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created Wickhams Cay I and II but never solved the drainage problem.
THEM NEED TO GO FURTHER UP THE GHUTS TO CHECK FOR FALLEN TREES AND CAR BODY PARTS THAT ARE THE MAIN CULPRITS FOR BLOCKAGE
WE HAVE A DRAINAGE PROBLEM…CLEANING THE GHUTS ALONE WONT CUT IT…WE HAVE TO FIX THE PROBLEM ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Make the assessment a regular task, so history will not repeat itself.
BVI News, you spelled A**ES wrong! LOL!
I don’t think Bates anticipated the planning incompetence that would follow so many years later.
Until this last decade or so I do not remember any of the flooding/drainage problems we experience today!
Or, maybe I misunderstanding and you’re just saying it’s all the white man’s fault again? 😉
AND YOU SPELT THE PAST TENSE OF SPELL WRONG, SHOULD BE (SPELT) AND NOT (SPELLED)
a day before ya’ll hear storm coming again– this is the type of lackadaisical thing that needs to stop. From time the storm happened last week. That should of been a wake up call to evaluate all flooding areas and clean the guts not a day before ayo hear storm coming again.
Both are accepted spelling usage in the full global world we live in. Even in the UK both forms are deemed correct.
So perhaps not shouting this might have been better?
Assess means look at from 100 yards away. “Yup that looks good”
Remember now– water runs down hill.
U and your team coming don’t worry u are not doing anything for the country
Where was this before Phillipe?
The floods happened two weeks ago. What a set of waste people leading this territory.