BY JAVENE SKYERS Observer staff reporter skyersk@jamaicaobserver.com Thursday, August 13, 2015
MINISTER of State in the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development Colin Fagan says great things are in store for Portmore as there are a number of rehabilitation projects currently taking place in his municipality, while others are to come on stream.
Fagan, the member of Parliament for St Catherine South East, which includes several Portmore communities, was speaking at this week's Jamaica Observer Monday Exchange.
"We are decommissioning the Bridgeport and Waterford area sewage plants and all that sewage will go directly to the Soapberry plant for processing," he told Observer reporters and editors.
He said the project, which will see above 85 per cent of the total decommissioning of plants in St Catherine South East, comes at a cost of just under $3 billion dollars and will also include the decommissioning of other sewage plants in the municipality, such as the plant in Hamilton Gardens.
"These plants would have outlived their usefulness as they were built in the early 1970s to just support the Independence City and Edgewater communities and then later the Bridgeport and Waterford communities," Fagan said. He said, however, that over the years more communities have developed in the growing municipality and it has become too much for the plants to handle.
In addition to the sewage plant decommissioning, various road rehabilitation efforts are taking place. Fagan said the Port Henderson bridge is to be rehabilitated as it is in a "bad shape", in reference to the frame and base sections of the bridge. He added that even though the surface of the bridge is in good shape, to keep the structure up as it is will result in disaster. more
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