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The Sluice Gate at Graeme Hall, a National Disgrace

The following was received from a citizen who has a deep concern for the environment. The images above are of the sluice gate and canal at Graeme Hall taken in early February 2013 .  The sluice gate has operated infrequently during the last ten years under both Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and the Democratic Labour…

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The following was received from a citizen who has a deep concern for the environment.

Sluice Gate at Graeme Hall (a)
Sluice Gate at Graeme Hall (b)
Sluice Gate at Graeme Hall (c)

The images above are of the sluice gate and canal at Graeme Hall taken in early February 2013 .  The sluice gate has operated infrequently during the last ten years under both Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and the Democratic Labour (DLP) administrations.

Since the 2008 election not only has the gate not been repaired or replaced but the walls of the canal have collapsed on the western side. The reason for this is that since the gate does not function, heavy duty equipment is used to remove sand from inside the canal and in front of the gate to allow water to flow out and then replaced to block the flow of water.

Why in the last five years has the Ministry of Environment, Water Resources and Drainage under Dr. Denis Lowe’s leadership, been unable to repair or replace the sluice gate so that it can function and be used to manage the flow of water in and out out of the wetland?

Absolutely no repair or maintenance has taken place in the last five years and the  situation has been allowed to deteriorate to the state shown in the pictures.

44 responses to “The Sluice Gate at Graeme Hall, a National Disgrace”

  1. jumbledwriter Avatar
    jumbledwriter

    I’m liking this not because of the destruction, but because someone like you cares enough to spread the word about this. Thanks.
    –JW

  2. David Avatar
    David

    If we had debates or opportunities to question our servants in government aka ministers BU would easily ask the question of Minister Lowe – why is it the sluice gate at Graeme Hall has not been maintained?

  3. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    “The sluice gate has operated infrequently during the last ten years …….”

    The sluice has NOT been raised or lowered in the last ten years (maybe more) because it is broken and cannot function.

  4. Adrian Loveridge Avatar
    Adrian Loveridge

    David,
    The appears little or no acountability from Ministers of Government. I have been trying to send an email to Christopher Sinckler for days. His email address shown on the Parliamentary website is wrong. His constituency Office emaill address shown on the DLP website is wrong and no one that monitors the DLP FaceBook page wants to respond other that post offensive personal attacks. The objective was to send a personal message to Mr. Sinckler expressing my concerns over a matter, but the wall of non-communication is almost impossible to scale.

  5. David Avatar
    David

    @Nostradamus

    Thanks for the clarification. Used the word infrequently because there was a period when Graemw Hall was fully operational about 5 years ago that we thought the gate was operational.

  6. David Avatar
    David

    @Notradamus

    See this report which dated 2010.

    http://www.bajanreporter.com/2010/10/barbados-government-finally-gets-conscience-sluice-gates-to-be-cleared-worthing-beach-closed-for-friday-29th-oct-breaking-news/

  7. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    @ David,
    The public notice notice put out by BGIS in the your link that the closure of the beach is to facilitate work on the sluice gate by the Drainage Division has been published whenever the Drainage Division is going to dig out the sand in front of and behind the sluice gate and allow the water to flow out.

    The Drainage Division did not carry out any work on the sluice gate on February 29, 2010 or on any of the dates in the notices sent out by BGIS during the term of this present DLP administration (5 years).

  8. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    On the cusp of another Election and issues surrounding Graeme Hall in the news again, what happened to Peter Allard? Is the Graeme Hall Waterpark and associated condos going to rise again? How is the Sanctuary? Will GP be able to walk on the bank of the swamp as he did so many moons ago?

    So many questions so few answers.

  9. Well Well Avatar
    Well Well

    Another black eye served on the island by the government, no kick backs =no maintenance, and even then there is a history of neglect for state owned equipment.

  10. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Operating the sluice gate is not ministerial function. Someone would have to say to me that the matter was brought to the attention of the Minister, and he did not take steps to have his officials do their duty, before I can blame him or any other politician.

    Lowe was more involved with Graeme Hall at a higher level according to what I have read on BU.

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @Caswell

    Behave!

    There is no way Allard, Harry Roberts et al at Graeme Hall Sanctuary would not have raised this matter with Lowe.

  12. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    @Caswell

    http://www.graemehall.com/press/releases/sluice-gate-failures/index.htm

    Excerpt below from the above link to GHNS 2009 press release:

    “Over the last 10 years Sanctuary offers of technical assistance to the Government of Barbados to repair the sluice gate have been met with silence or inaction. Since 2006 the Ministry of Public Works has been attempting to control water levels using a backhoe to add or remove sand fill in the sluice gate channel.

    In 2005, the Sanctuary funded a three day fact-finding trip for three engineers from the Ministries of Environment and Public Works to the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) in South Florida, where they observed wetland management solutions using sluice gates and weirs. This technical capacity-building trip sponsored by the Sanctuary resulted in a field report filed by each of the Ministries, but no actions to repair the sluice gate ever occurred. “

  13. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    @ Caswell

    Link to GHNS press release Dec 17, 2009
    http://www.graemehall.com/press/releases/Reflections-2009/index.htm

    Excerpt below from the above link to a GHNS 2009 press release:

    “The government’s sluice gate has been broken for most of the past 6 years. ”

    “Last January, almost a year ago, we had what we thought was a very progressive 30 minute meeting with Dr. Lowe, Minister of the Environment. He said he was interested in working with us to make the Sanctuary part of a future legacy for the people of Barbados, and he promised to get back to us.

    We waited and waited. Nothing.

    Nine months ago we heard there was a government budget of a million dollars for Graeme Hall and that a government proposal was on its way. Nobody called us and nothing happened, again.

    Last month we heard Dr. Lowe say on the Voice of Barbados that there would be talks with us by the end of November. Nothing -”

    http://www.graemehall.com/press/releases/Status-Government-Meetings

  14. Gabriel Tackle Avatar
    Gabriel Tackle

    Quoting former New York mayor Ed Koch again..”the people have voted and the people must be punished”An apt and fit experience of the bajan electorate under Stuart and the DEMS.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Prime Minister Stuart is being carried in the news today touting the position that Barbados is being pushed as a green economy. See above.

    Madness!!!

  16. Wily Coyote Avatar
    Wily Coyote

    @ Adrian

    Black politicians are oblivious to WHITE noise.

  17. Gabriel Tackle Avatar
    Gabriel Tackle

    @David
    I had the same impresion.With all the huge problems we face in this country that is what the PM can waste time talking about.Seems to me he thinks he is home and dry and can now employ time wasting tactics.

  18. Kevin Avatar
    Kevin

    So yet again you all want the DLP to do stuff in 5 years that the BLP aint do for near 15. I pass the sluice gate nearly everyday for years, this aint something that just happen. The deterioration started donkey years ago.

  19. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Kevin | February 11, 2013 at 5:25 PM |

    So stop the shite talk about a “Green Economy”!

    Sustainable living requires that wetlands such as the Graeme Hall swamp are allowed to function in an environmentally friendly way with easy access to the sea to give and receive Nature’s love and ingredients for survival.

    Even if the sluice gate was inoperable during the BLP reign don’t you think that making it a functional gateway to the swamp’s life source would have greater appeal to environmentally concerned voters?

    If would have made more of an electoral impact if such an achievement was listed in the DLP list of achievements rather than the vacuous promises of Freundel Stuart like a drowning man grasping at environmentally appealing straws.

    In the meantime we will wait for this government to clean up in a timely fashion the garbage around the place and remove the detritus and debris from the gutters and sidewalks before we see the Graeme Hall swamp and the “OceanSea” meeting and exchanging fluids at the sluice gate of love.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @Kevin

    We have become so gutless and apologetic a people. This government established a Drainage Unit. It signaled that it is a government that is environmentally friendly. Allard offered these people a way out and what? For five years Lowe did squat to the damn gate.

  21. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    What’s also surprising is that the 2 Parliamentary representatives (John Boyce / St Lawrence & William Duguid /Rendezvous/Amity Lodge) whose constituents are affected by flooding seem quite satisfied with the status quo. In May 2010 when a period of high rainfall was experienced in a short period of time, residents and businesses in the area had their properties flooded and since the sluice gate was not working they had to wait until the Drainage unit could send a backhoe to clear the sand in front of and behind the sluice gate and release the water to alleviate their plight.

    Maybe the residents who were affected then, and likely to be effected in future will let their Parliamentary representatives know how they feel on February 21.

    After all Dr. Lowe doesn’t need to worry since his constituency is far from Graeme Hall and has been quoted in the Advocate newspaper on Nov 19, 2012 as saying “ That the workers of the NCC are doing a “tremendous job” across this island, has no regrets with the constituency of Christ Church East being at the top of the “to do” list”. Further in the article he is quoted as saying “ ……That is my commitment” he stated unapologetically before adding that the charge by some that most of the NCC workers hail from Christ Church East “ may also be true” but that he is proud of that and as such “makes no apologies”. At least the man knows his priorities.

  22. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    You are all behaving as though Lowe is used to doing any work.

  23. Kevin Avatar
    Kevin

    @millertheanunnak
    Since you’re so environmentally concerned, I guess your still upset at the party that spent millions upon millions of dollars to put a landfill in the middle of a national park.

  24. David Avatar
    David

    Can we focus on the fact that the sluice gate has not been operational for years or is this too hard to do?

  25. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    John Boyce – Oct 22 2008
    He also made special mention of the dysfunctional sluice gate at Graeme Hall, Christ Church and said Government would be tending to the matter urgently.

    “The sluice gate at Graeme Hall does not operate and has not been operating for a long time, and we will make sure that the gate is replaced by something more advanced that will allow it to respond quicker under heavy rains, release when it is supposed to and close back to prevent water from coming back inland.

    “We have inherited a situation where the drainage issue has been neglected and we intend to correct it,” he said. (PCA)

    Link here

    http://barpublish.bits.baseview.com/newnation/story/308892806897466.php

    Unit to work on drainage problem

    Published on: 10/22/08.
    Minister of Transport, Works and International Transport, John Boyce yesterday hailed the new National Environmental Enhancement Project as a major solution to the island’s drainage woes.

    The programme brings 182 new workers to the drainage unit and they will be deployed at 13 public works depots to maintain drainage structures, out-falls on beaches and wells around the island throughout the year.

    “The maintenance of our drainage system has been allowed to fall too far behind. It is our task to correct the situation and with the launch of this project we will be able to manage and maintain our wells, our canals and our drains all year round so that prior to the rainy season these things would have already been done,” Boyce said.

    The new work force is made up largely of people who were formerly on welfare.

    Boyce also identified specific areas that the new employees will be targeting, namely maintenance of the island’s pump houses, Bayland and Princess Alice in St Michael and Alexandra School in St Peter.

    He also made special mention of the dysfunctional sluice gate at Graeme Hall, Christ Church and said Government would be tending to the matter urgently.

    “The sluice gate at Graeme Hall does not operate and has not been operating for a long time, and we will make sure that the gate is replaced by something more advanced that will allow it to respond quicker under heavy rains, release when it is supposed to and close back to prevent water from coming back inland.

    “We have inherited a situation where the drainage issue has been neglected and we intend to correct it,” he said. (PCA

  26. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    I thought that the gate was opened a couple of years ago and the bathers complained about the brackish water contaminating the sea and interrupting their sea baths but my memory may be faulty.

    One thing that isn’t faulty is he discomfort that Allard caused Owen so much so that Owen…… well better not say it (if they could hack the Bushes I would be a minor irritant) so it was only natural for Allard to enlist Lowe to help fight his battle. I don’t know who dropped the ball but Allard seems to have picked up his money and left now the field is wide open for a rebirth of the Waterpark and condos which were proposed to be built near the site. It is not a sure thing because one or two BLP heavyweights live in areas like Graeme Hall Gardens and associated areas near the proposed site can’t have more traffic and associated noise impacting the district.

  27. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    @ Sargeant

    You are correct about bathers complaining about the brackish water contaminating the sea but the gate was not “opened”. The gate does not and cannot be raised or lowered. In the instance you speak of the usual backhoe would have been used to clear the sand in front of and behind the gate and the water allowed to flow out. Because the gate does not function it means that there are long periods between the times that the water is allowed to flow out so that when they do eventually get around to using the backhoe there is a large volume of water to release and they usually allow the water to flow out for too long a time.

    If the gate functioned then it would it be much easier to manage the flow of water in terms of volume, time of release as well as duration. Over the last 10 years the reason for allowing water to flow out is all about drainage when one of the most vital needs of the ecosystem is to allow sea water in to the wetland at times when the tides are high enough to do so. There needs to be an interaction between the swamp and the sea and this used to be the case when the gate worked.

  28. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Kevin | February 11, 2013 at 7:06 PM |
    “Since you’re so environmentally concerned, I guess your still upset at the party that spent millions upon millions of dollars to put a landfill in the middle of a national park.”

    Not still upset but watchful for future similar environmental terrorism or any early indications of such.

    Unlike you, though, the miller does not dwell in the past but more concerned about today and hopefully tomorrow. Talking the talk and walking the walk are (although not mutually exclusive) miles, or should we say poles, apart. One requires hot air to do the other requires commitment, political will, resources, hard work and people’s involvement. The awful state of this country’s environment with human generated rubbish and derelict vehicles all over the place is indicative about how the government really sees- as opposed to concern- about our once little ‘greenish-brown’ and pleasant land.

    The question to you, Kevin, is what plans does the DLP have in store for Greenland if not a dump? Or would it just be another overgrown site like the Four Seasons and Sam Lord’s Castle or even the former Homes (birthplace or official residence) of our Father of Independence EWB?

  29. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    Both BLP and DLP are complicit in their neglect of the sluice gate and the environment in general. They both have a sorry record. Prior to the 2008 election the BLP administration had allowed the sluice gate to fall into the sorry state that was inherited by the DLP. This is despite the fact that in 2005, the Sanctuary funded a three day fact-finding trip for three engineers from the Ministries of Environment and Public Works to the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) in South Florida, where they observed wetland management solutions using sluice gates and weirs. According to the GHNS the only outcome was a field report “filed by each of the Ministries, but no actions to repair the sluice gate ever occurred. “ Excellent report writing skills but zero implementation of any solution. Lack of will? Incompetence? Inability?

    Meanwhile Ministers and their public servant entourages are flying off to any and every environmental conference making speeches and presenting papers while real action and implementation of any plan is never carried out.

  30. barbadostripadvisor Avatar
    barbadostripadvisor

    i have talked about this about a year ago.
    nasty swamp water has killed the reef from sandy beach right down to Hastings
    no filtering ,full or parasites and god knows what else.
    and you all now catching on??????????????
    constitution river flows into the ocean as well from many miles inland .through many villages.feces,dead animals,dead people ,pig guts,,floes into the carenage and smells disguising and is also killing the reef in Carlisle bay and beyond.
    i had a friend who worked for the city of Miami water authority he brought his kit to barbados. the sea water failed the test and the drinking water failed the Miami test.
    dont listen do you all.!!!!!
    http://youtu.be/zJ04WrKASHY

  31. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Has anyone sought expertise that would be more effective than a high maintenance sluice gate?

    I also think the complaint from bathers is ludicrous. Mother Nature decides when the rain will wash into the sea.

  32. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    The issue of the sluice gate when it was properly maintained was its opening at the appropriate time related to the tides.Simple as that! An old man from Worthing called Donald Elcock was responsible for that way back in the 50’s and 60’s. No one bathers complained in those days.

  33. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    But why are we surprised that the Graeme Hall sluice gates are in such a bad condition . It has be given the same maintenance treatment as The SSA trucks, The QEH Ambulances, The Transport Board buses, some QEH equipment, our road network, Law and Order and many public buildings. Who are worring about these minor nuisances ? when everyone seems to be taken up with,the Economy,Alternative energy, Greening Barbados, a new general hospital, and more Heritage sites.
    Perhaps if we had a local government, these mundane things would get some attention.

  34. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    @ Hants
    “Has anyone sought expertise that would be more effective than a high maintenance sluice gate?
    I also think the complaint from bathers is ludicrous. Mother Nature decides when the rain will wash into the sea.”

    It’s possible that a weir or weirs could be used or a combination of sluice gate and weir(s). See below initiative by GHNS to do exactly what you suggested.

    In 2005, the Sanctuary funded a three day fact-finding trip for three engineers from the Ministries of Environment and Public Works to the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) in South Florida, where they observed wetland management solutions using sluice gates and weirs. This technical capacity-building trip sponsored by the Sanctuary resulted in a field report filed by each of the Ministries, but no actions to repair the sluice gate ever occurred. “ It is very likely that that the necessary expertise exists within the Coastal Zone Management Unit.

    With regard to complaints by beach users and sea bathers. If the sluice gate worked or the combination of sluice and weir(s) was used and you had proper management, the volume of water could be regulated, the time of discharge (late evening into night), and the duration. If that was done then the amount of brackish water seen in the sea would be zero to minimal. The current arrangement of using a backhoe and digging out the sand means that the flow is allowed to continue for way too long and sometimes several days. There have been several instances where it has been allowed to drain for so long that the water level in the wetland and Sanctuary is reduced to such a low level that there are large fish kills.

  35. David Avatar
    David

    Surely the time has come for Minister Lowe to make a statement. Ideally this should be a platform issue but the BLP will likely not touch this matter either because it extends to their watch. Why would we not hear a strident BHTA or residents and business group from the area?

    What a rotten system.

  36. Adrian Loveridge Avatar
    Adrian Loveridge

    David, I think you have raised a very good point regarding the BHTA. They seem to have been quiet on ALL fronts, considering the current crisis in our tourism industry.
    In over five years, I have only seen our parliamentary representative, Dr. Lowe twice. Once here at our hotel and once at the Waterfront. Yet I know he has made the time to attend a number of foreign conferences which could include: Copenhagen (Denmark), Durban (South Africa), Rio (Brazil) and Ilulissat (Greenland). Some positive results made have resulted from all these conferences but ‘we’ have not been advised accordingly.
    Yet, the Minister seems unwilling or unable to sort out a simple sluice gate on his doorstep!

  37. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    @ David,

    It could be a platform issue but only if the residents in St. Lawrence, Rendezvous/Amity Lodge, Worthing let Parliamentary candidates for the area John Boyce/Dr. Walcott (Ch Ch S) and Verla DePeiza / Maria Agard (Ch Ch W) make their concerns know. From their point of view it’s a flood danger and health issue with respect to mosquitoes. Businesses should also make it an issue because the whole of Rendezvous by SuperCentre Big B and CIBC First Caribbean floods during heavy rains and Worthing by Chicken Barn, Lucky Horseshoe etc. It could be really serious if we have some really intense and prolonged rains. Remember October 1970 “flood” . At that time the sluice gate worked and was opened and mitigated the effect of flooding even though Worthing and Rendezvous still experienced some flooding it was not catastrophic. Can you imagine what would happen now with the sluice gate inoperable? Will the drainage department be able to mobilise the backhoe in time to clear the sand? Will the equipment be available and working or broken down. Will the personnel to drive it be available?

    http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=13152

    Just recently in May 2011 when we experienced a period of heavy and intense rains and flooding in the St. Lawrence, Rendezvous/Amity Lodge area I personally saw a distraught and desperate young man, shovel in hand trying in vain to remove the sand blocking the canal. He told me his home in Rendezvous was in serious danger of being flooded. He had several feet of water in his yard and if the water could not be released from the swamp ASAP his home would be flooded. Fortunately the backhoe arrived and the immediate danger alleviated. The senior citizen who lives across the road from the canal on the land side had her yard flooded and car damaged by the rising waters. She was unable to leave her home. These are just examples but many others were affected and stand to be affected.

    http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/rain-pain/

    One would think that any Parliamentary representative worth his salt would have addressed the issue especially after being quoted in Oct 2008 as saying “He also made special mention of the dysfunctional sluice gate at Graeme Hall, Christ Church and said Government would be tending to the matter urgently.”

  38. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    @ David
    Can you edit the above post. It was posted twice in the same post!

  39. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Some years ago I visited a very famous beach in south america, the lay out of which is not dissimilar to that of Rockley. It is low lying and subject to frequent flood waters, probably more evil smelling than that of Graeme Hall. I was told that every morning from around 4 am the bulldozer,which I saw would start clearing the flood trenches, followed by the beach maintenance staff who would do a thorough clean up before the first beach goers arrive . Of course this could never happen in Barbados.

  40. Nostradamus Avatar
    Nostradamus

    Nation Newspaper today Feb 14, 2013 front page headline “Dengue worry”. Start of the story says “There has been a worrying spike in dengue cases so far this year. And the Ministry of Health views the situation so seriously that it has issued a bulletin to doctors, reminding them to report any suspected cases of the disease.”

    http://www.nationnews.com/articles/view/dengue-worry/

    Further on it says the Ministry of Health stated in a release that among other things that it would maintain surveillance at various sites and one of those areas noted is WETLANDS. Is the Ministry of Health aware that the sluice has not and is not functioning and that there has been no effective wetland water level control in place for many years ? No interchange of sea water and fresh water that is so vital to the health of the wetland and for a vibrant fish population to control mosquitoes naturally? When the sluice gate worked, it was possible to raise the water levels and get water flowing through the canals. Flowing water in the canals means fewer mosquitoes.

    Have the Ministry of Health taken a look at the stagnant water (see photo above) between the sluice gate and the sand barrier? Wouldn’t it be incumbent on them to use whatever influence they have to get Dr. Lowe and his Ministry to fix or replace the gate or implement some solution? Anyone in the Ministry of Environment or Health ever heard of preventive methods or being proactive or even doing their job? Now they will need to go into the swamp and use chemical measures to control and kill the mosquitoes as well as the fish that control mosquitoes!

    Prior to the 2008 election Dr. Jerome Walcott of the DLP was not only the representative for the area (Ch Ch S) but Minister of Health and still the sluice gate was not replaced or repaired despite not functioning for several years. On the BLP website under Dr. Walcott’s profile one of his “Visions” is to “To enhance the Graeme Hall swamp/wetland area”. Really? Maybe he would like to elaborate. Nothing on John Boyce’s DLP profile page to show what he is planning for his constituency in the event that he is returned to Parliament

    So it seems that whether it is DLP or BLP neither of them have the capacity or ability or will to resolve what really is quite a simple problem.

  41. Parasitic Zombies Avatar
    Parasitic Zombies

    If it was a condition of competency and accomplishment for resubmitting your candiancy to run for election to Parliament, Barbados would have all new faces.

    instead of fresh new candidates, Barbados is confronted with posters of Zombies who died years ago and whose sole purpose when they slither out their holes, is to pick up a free cheque courtesy of the taxpayer.

  42. islandgal246 Avatar
    islandgal246

    And imagine that the health inspectors visiting your home and telling you that you can be charged for harbouring mosquitoes and the government are getting a pass.

  43. barbadostripadvisor Avatar
    barbadostripadvisor

    Reblogged this on barbados.tripadvisor.

  44. Sharon Brewster Avatar
    Sharon Brewster

    I am sure the Government and the Abed Family could put their money to better use than yet again another massive tourist development, which will no doubt fail in this economic crisis. Less tourism and another so-called eco-friendly hotel will make no difference. They could start by repairing the gate and leaving the sanctuary right where it is. Why not re-juvenate hotels on the coast to become eco-friendly. Bajans best wake up before it’s too late! All you Barbadians who portray to be intelligent people should go out and march against this ludicrous project and have it overthrown. Make your voices heard so that nature can take care of the swamp while Government does what it should do.

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