The South Coast Sewerage Treatment Plant at “better than pre-crisis” levels. But eventually, said Minister of Water Resources, Wilfred Abrahams, the entire sewerage system would have to be overhauled.
Abrahams made the comments during a press conference on Saturday at the Barbados Water Authority’s Pine, St Michael headquarters.
It was in December 2017, that the then new general manager, Keithroy Halliday, had described the hundreds of gallons of raw sewage, which had been spilling onto the streets of the South Coast from late 2016, as a “national crisis”.
On Saturday, Abrahams painted a picture of a Graeme Hall Swamp whose water quality was good and where fish had been reintroduced in the wake of the cessation of pumping raw sewage into its waters; of water levels in the swamp which had stablised as a result of the creation of an outfall, negating the necessity of opening the sluice gate and closing Worthing Beach; and of the much maligned disposal wells which have not been used since last December. (HLE)
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