IN JAMAICA: $624-million sewage system for Caymanas Estate.... It extends south of Mandela Highway and 1,800 metres north of the Sligoville main road.

Thursday, April 30, 2015   

THE Urban Development Corporation (UDC) is developing a $624-million sewage conveyance system for the Caymanas Estate property in St Catherine.

Chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC)
 Senator KD Knight (left) examines the plans for development
 of a $624-million sewage conveyance system at Caymanas
 Estate, at the contract signing ceremony for the project
held Tuesday at the UDC’s headquarters in downtown Kingston.
Others (from second left) are: Chief Executive Officer of New
 Era Homes Leo Thaddeo; Vice President of New Era
 Homes Desmond Young; and UDC General Manager
 Desmond Malcolm.

The system comprises 7.4 kilometres of force main and two lift stations to convey sewage to the Soapberry Wastewater Treatment Plant.

YP Seaton & Associates has been contracted to undertake the eight-month project, work on which is expected to begin within the next four weeks.

At the contract signing ceremony on Tuesday at the UDC's headquarters in downtown Kingston, the corporation's chairman, Senator K D Knight, said the project is to facilitate further development of Caymanas Estate.

"The mandate of the UDC is to make development happen. One of the properties owned by the UDC where development needs to happen is at the Caymanas Estate," he said.

Knight said funding for the project came from the recent sale of assets including the Oceana Hotel, Forum Hotel and the Jamaica International Telecommunications (Jamintel) building.

Caymanas Estate, which is situated nine miles from the centre of Kingston and six miles east of Spanish Town, covers an area of 10,703 acres. It extends south of Mandela Highway and 1,800 metres north of the Sligoville main road. more