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Sewage on the South Coast and TIDES

There was a very lively town hall meeting held yesterday to further ventilate on the vexing issue concerning the deterioration of the environment on the South Coast of Barbados to follow the well attended BLP political meeting held on Sunday night. Successive governments have invested heavily in education and health, the unfortunate and protracted situation…

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John Boyce, Minister of Health
Dr. David Estwick, vying for the DLP presidency
Denis Lowe, Minister of the Drainage
There was a very lively town hall meeting held yesterday to further ventilate on the vexing issue concerning the deterioration of the environment on the South Coast of Barbados to follow the well attended BLP political meeting held on Sunday night. Successive governments have invested heavily in education and health, the unfortunate and protracted situation playing out on the South Coast begs the BU question if the heavy investment has provided an adequate ROI.
The following comment was posted by John, a prolific commenter on the issue.

– Barbados Underground

John commented on Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary Assessment Report and the South Coast Sewage Plant Connection

So, here’s my thinking at the moment.

There is a standard 3 foot increase in underground water level due solely to tidal fluctuations.

The rain falls … 6 inches plus.

The sluice gate is nailed shut for whatever reason.

It’s operation is the responsibility of the owners of Graeme Hall Plantation … GOB.

The 3 foot fluctuation now occurs on top of 5 feet due to the inability of the water to drain through the sluice gate.

So underground water levels can vary from 5 feet above a zero datum to 8 feet above that datum.

Before, the most it would increase to was 3 feet above the zero datum and that was due to due to an act of God.

Water now “springs” from unlikely places due to an act of man.

Manholes, backyards wherever it is forced by the sea it comes up.

The sewage issues, both from the plant and the development in the watershed make a bad situation worse.

Is Government liable for its handling of the sluice gate?

There is the 1945 conveyance which specifies how the owner of Graeme Hall Plantation is to operate the sluice gate.

Here is what has happened with Mrs. Burke.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNWA4_mPdcs&feature=youtu.be

She knows instinctively at 84 that the operation sluice gate has been mishandled and is one of the causes of her problems.

Her residence looks like it is closest to the zero datum

…. and then there are businesses

http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/91384/guests-bolt

It is possible that like Mrs. Burke, this business is also a victim of the handling of the sluice gate?

If it is where I think it is I believe it is a victim too.

Clearly it is suffering loss and it is easily quantifiable.

Does the decision regarding liability of the GOB to the GHNS only apply in the case of the BIT or does it have implications for locals seeking redress for loss through the courts here?

Would the GOB be strictly liable to those suffering loss under the laws of Barbados?

Probably phrased it all wrong as I am not a lawyer but just applying logic which might not be legal!!

… maybe that’s why spring tides are so called!!

260 responses to “Sewage on the South Coast and TIDES”

  1. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    ““During the first week of November one of our effluent pumps failed and we did not have the capacity to push the effluent out to sea. So we experienced some overflow in the collection system. That pump was repaired then we had another failure a week later.”

    So what de france happen between then and now ?

    Maybe they have to send a fishing boat to bring back the pump.

  2. John Avatar
    John

    Well Well & Consequences December 17, 2016 at 8:22 PM #
    Ah told ya it was a conspiracy by both governments to let that sewage plant degrade to it’s present state, they did not factor in a flood doing in the tourism product, so psyche evals are a necessity, gotta be madness…no other explanation makes sense, as you just told yaself…lol
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whom_the_gods_would_destroy

  3. John Avatar
    John

    If there are supposed to be 18 outputs and there are only a couple not blocked that will put an extra load on the pump, assuming that the nonfunctioning ones are blocked.

  4. John Avatar
    John

    It may keep failing

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Maybe now they will create an inventory of spare parts and an extra pump.

  6. Calling a spade Avatar
    Calling a spade

    Adam Smith’s economic theory spoke of the working class, middle, class, rich elites and so on. Smith died unaware of a new socio economic group the traitor class. The traitor class reveals itself in Prodigal who rants he couldn’t care less about the diaspora. The diaspora mind you are fellow nationals residing overseas. The diaspora’s importance to the economy surpasses manufacturing and agriculture . Remittances are only exceeded by tourist receipts on government’s balance sheet. Barbados wouldn’t be the Number One Developing country without the input of the diaspora.

    The miller belongs firmly in the traitor class. That imbecile’s appeal to tourists is to skip the island and spend their foreign exchange elsewhere. A sickening display by the traitor class is the owner of the little guest house whose profanity of ‘sewage’ on his property went viral. One is forgiven if the bigot with the stink mouth is mistaken for a Alabama red neck. His vomit inducing babble conjures up hillbillies in white sheets burning crosses and hunting coons aka negroes.

    Saddle Head Kerrie Simmons aka wife beater is a representative of the traitor class. His tirade on “jobby” was more certified buffoon than so called lawyer . The raving of the ass is likely to do more damage to the tourist business than a hurricane. These low life are specimens of the traitor class most of whom are in the BU household. Adam Smith would be in shock over the new socio economic category. The reality is they are a minority in spite of delusions to the contrary . A Christian understanding awaits them at a time and place chosen by the silent majority.

  7. ac Avatar
    ac

    Two million to fix one piece which does not include the astronomical figure quoted by a govt minister to upgrade the entire system which would make sense rather than the piece meal procedure usually applied
    The Dr. statement gives clarity as to reason and causes with the culprit attributed to duress and extensive pressure
    All of which can be directed to flaws built into the system which should have been of major concern in the initial planning
    It is hard to perceive that a plant relatively young could not withstand the pressures brought about from six inches of rain unless something was inheritently wrong

  8. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    He admitted the BWA ‘faltered in communication’ in addressing the issue. In light of this, he said the organization has launched a social media campaign to keep the public properly informed
    ++++++++
    Isn’t that the truth, not the least of which is the statement from him alleging sabotage of the system. The news conference represents progress as per my earlier call for some transparency. Let’s hope that the remedies work and the disaster is a learning experience which will not be repeated.

  9. David Avatar
    David

    It was not a government minister, Harry Husbands is a parliamentary secretary. Also as some on BU have confirmed if the diffusers are blocked it will pressure the under-maintained pumps.

  10. ac Avatar
    ac

    ac December 17, 2016 at 9:33 PM #

    It is hard to perceive that a plant relatively young could not withstand the pressures brought about from six inches of rain unless something was inherently wrong

    and the answer

    Plant was not designed to handle sewage and storm water

    Indeed a staggering and mind blowing revelation by the DR. one would believe that the expertise of the engineers and designers of the south west sewage plant would have thought out of serious concern to designed a plant which could withstand the flow of heavy rainfall especially in a country that is prone to the high risk to hurricanes and torrential down pours which leads to flooding.
    Eventually drop by drop bit by bit as mother nature has its way the true story revealing the construction of the plant and the weight of its financial support in protecting society and the environment would be told

  11. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    Calling a Spade
    You should stick to fishing,what one might call inherited knowledge. Country bumpkin!

  12. ac Avatar
    ac

    Which now begs the question how would the 2 million price tag of fixing a part of this humongous malaise at the sewer plant serve as a long term correction of defying the laws of nature and its devastating impact as was seen in the past two weeks along the south coast in flood prone areas
    A revelation of such magnitude should indeed call for head rolling and special investigations as a door was open which lead to callousness and a total disregard to the overall best interest of society
    the opposition instead of pointing finger on this issue for added political advantage should look among themselves and ask the question where did they go wrong and what preventive measures should they have taken in the role of governing when executing the south west sewage plant
    This is not a blameless issue but a debacle of biblical proportions and blame is necessary as a cautionary measure to disallow such events every happening again by any given govt events which compromise and threaten the health and livelihood of a nation

  13. David Avatar
    David

    It is two million and not two billion?

    Make up your mind.

    BTW it is South Coast Sewage plant, perhaps you have South West Airlines at the top of mind.

  14. John Avatar
    John

    ac December 18, 2016 at 7:01 AM #
    ac December 17, 2016 at 9:33 PM #
    It is hard to perceive that a plant relatively young could not withstand the pressures brought about from six inches of rain unless something was inherently wrong
    and the answer
    Plant was not designed to handle sewage and storm water
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    I have made the point already that 6 inches falling in the 1156 acre catchment area would produce 186 million gallons of run off, about 4-5 days of the entire pumping capacity of the BWA.

    There is no way a few pumps at the Sewage Plant can handle drainage and sewage if the system has not been designed to.

    If there is flooding and drainage water makes its way into the input of the plant the plant just cannot get rid of it, depending on the volume.

    If you watch the documentary on the History of Plumbing you will see what Chicago had to do to get past the problems of drainage and sewage.

    That’s why the pump at Gentle Breeze was a joke … there was no way that pump was going to move all that water before Christmas … maybe an exaggeration but just to make the point!!

    It is like trying to prevent the flood waters at Clarke’s Road that we saw in the clips or at Charles Row Bridge from coming through!!!

    No way man can make a system with pumps to do that.

    Hants, John Mwansa has pretty clearly answered your question about whether the South Coast Sewage System was designed as a combined system … drainage and sewage …. no.

    But like other sewage systems in the world drainage can sometimes find it way in.

    It is difficult to stop the flow of water, sometimes impossible.

    The sluice gate if opened, would or could have prevented drainage finding its way in by diverting excess drainage to the sea, but it was nailed shut at the wrong time and no means to open it quickly was in place.

    That is the criminal aspect to the flooding …. negligence.

    Somebody needs to be held accountable.

    While fixing the plant and its systems is important, the people responsible for the operation or lack of operation of that gate need to be strung up.

    There is no high technology involved, just plain common sense.

    A walking buddy told me the old railway carriage that once spanned the channel was the “residence” of the man tasked with opening and closing the gate to keep levels in control.

    That is the extent of the technology involved!!!!

    We can replace it now with a motor driven gate, with backup from solar panels on the roof of Liz Thompson’s multi million dollar beach complex, and/or even a generator.

    We could incorporate level sensing and rainfall sensing into the controller that ran the motor.

    But …. the only technology that is really needed is for a person to wind it up when necessary and wind it back down when the water has passed.

    … and that was all it took!!

    Ms. Blackman and Gentle Breeze, drainage entering the sewage system and countless other businesses and homes, the fish kill at Peronne Gap … et cetera et cetera et cetera ….. once upon a time all that would have been avoided by a man opening and closing the gate..

    … but that was when Bajans possessed intelligence and acted with common sense.

    $2 billion dollars or 2 million dollars, simple common sense would have prevented all of this.

    … and it isn’t to say the need had not been seen and addressed, the CZMU report from 2005 had clear recommendations.

    The one good thing with the flooding has been the problems with the Sewage Plant were exposed for the world to see.

    Now they too can be fixed.

  15. John Avatar
    John

    There are TWO separate and distinct problems, drainage and sewage.

    The drainage problem is a quick fix.

    The sewage problem will take time and money.

    But if only the sewage problem is addressed, the drainage problem will once more come back to bite us.

    FIX BOTH, THE EASIER ONE FIRST!!

    https://atkinsontshirt.com/2013/02/12/when-you-are-up-to-your-ass-in-alligators/

  16. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “The sluice gate if opened, would or could have prevented drainage finding its way in by diverting excess drainage to the sea, but it was nailed shut at the wrong time and no means to open it quickly was in place,

    That is the criminal aspect to the flooding …. negligence.

    Somebody needs to be held accountable.”

    And the dummies with no commonsense paraded around on the blog and in the newspapers for days telling lies, tried to turn it into a 2 billion dollar rocket science project and a political blame game when simple commonsense told many of us that it was negligence caused that health hazard, we have been saying it for over a week, something as easy and simple as opening a sluice gate…time to get the idiots gone.

    If Sealy and Boyce start glowing from their deep in poop water, it would be poetic justice for those 2 liars, they could not even face the people at the townhall meeting.

  17. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    That was long before education……. commonsense and intelligence came long before education, now they boast and are proud about the later and no longer have any of the former two…they were educated to regress.

  18. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    If Sealy and Boyce start glowing from their deep SWIM in poop water, it would be poetic justice for those 2 liars, they could not even face the people at the townhall meeting…lol

  19. ac Avatar
    ac

    “IF” is never an answer to a problem systematic of design flaws. Minister boyce did indicated that with the persistent rain the sluice gate was opened up
    However the revelation of a sewer plant built on swamp land and in a high risk zone prone to flooding having no secure level of protection against the forces of nature but simply depending on a sluice gate which can become dysfunctional in times of real devastation is simply shocking and disturbing
    Indeed heads need to roll

  20. John Avatar
    John

    There was no option but to open the sluice gate.

    186 million gallons descending on the wetlands from the 6 inch rain raised the level .

    If it ended up concentrated in the lowest 10% of the 1156 catchment area the level would try to rise 10 times to 60 inches or 5 feet!!

    There is underground and lateral surface flow that will try to stop it but there is a lag time.

    The surface runoff arrived in a matter of hours.

    Wish I could have seen the sluice gate then.

    If the road flooded, that will give you an idea of the level in the channel.

    The channel must have been close to overflowing.

    Whether or not the sluice gate had been opened, the volume of water created by more rain would simply have naturally overflowed and reached the sea.

    It may even have taken the gate with it.

    Same sort of principle at Clarke’s Road, man cannot build structures to contain and direct nature when nature really lets go.

    Man can easily create more problems for himself if he doesn’t understand that simple fact of life.

    The term 100 year event is often used in such designs … it is an admission that nature will have the last say …. it is an expression of hope that it will take a long time!!

    Any sensible engineer will acknowledge there are some events for which no design will work, or the resources to build a design that might do not exist.

    Any design is thus a best guess given knowledge of what has happened before.

  21. ac Avatar
    ac

    John given an understanding of your above comment. Would it not have been total commonsense for the plant elsewhere be situated other than a flood prone area given the negative reasons u opined

  22. David Avatar
    David

    Let us not forget the Bridgetown Sewage Plant is rumoured to be having ‘problems’ as well.

  23. ac Avatar
    ac

    One issue at a time first sort out all the problems agitating the South west sewage plant and then transfer that knoweldge to helping to resolve the Bridgetown plant

  24. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    https://www.theweathernetwork.com/bb/weather/-/bridgetown

  25. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @John

    Yours @9.31am
    Wouldn’t that mean that sewage would have been deposited in the sea rather than peoples’ property?

  26. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @David

    If the Bridgetown sewage operation is failing couldn’t it have been bedeviled by the same issues that plagued the South Coast sewage i.e. lack of maintenance and the alleged dumping of grease by households and businesses connected to sewage system? At home (Bim) we have a “grease trap” which is supposed to stop the grease from going into the well which is cleaned periodically, if a business or household bypasses that trap or fails to maintain it what would be the result?

  27. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    Lack of maintenance is a big part of the problem. Sending home drainage personnel would not have helped. A mess Sargeant.

    Bear in mind we have several problems commingling to stress the sewage problem we have.

  28. David Avatar
    David

    Ministry releases findings of Worthing Beach tests

    BY: CHRISTINA SMITH

    08:35, December 18, 2016

    271 VIEWS

     

    Water quality monitoring tests of Worthing Beach and Sandy Beach conducted by the Environmental Protection Department (EPD), show there are no adverse bacteria present in the waters.

    Public health concerns over the safety of bathing at Worthing Beach have been addressed by the Ministry of Environment following a series of tests conducted over the last two weeks.

    Acting Director of the EPD, Anthony Headley delivered the findings during a multi-sector press briefing held in conjunction with the Barbados Water Authority over the weekend.

    Headley said the EPD took marine water samples on four occasions after the sluice gate on Worthing Beach was opened on December 2-4. The samples were taken on December 5, 7, 12 and 14 from three different sites- opposite the sluice gate, opposite Crystal Water Beach Bear and Sandy beach south.

    The samples were then used to test for the bacteria enterococci and faecal coliforum both known to cause a number of stomach infections. Headley said according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) standards the average units present in marine waters for the enterococci bacteria should not exceed 35 colony forming units (CFU) for every 100 milliliters of water and the faecal coliform should not exceed 400 CFU per 100 ml. 

    “For the enterococci results for all four sites, none of the samples exceeded 16. For the Faecal Coliform results the maximum results we received from the sampling program was 220.

    So it is clear that all of the beaches, all of the samples during the period after the incident were well within the USEPA standards we have adopted.”

    Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Joy St. John said environmental health officers have been doing on the ground assessments to ensure the sewage overflow posed no health risks to residents or employees in the Worthing area.

    "We were especially concerned about any potential back up into any of businesses rather than just in the car parks. We were able to find out that that was not the case, there were no backup in any of the restaurants. That is why our only action so far was the closure of the beach.

    There were a range of complaints that could have surfaced, none of them surfaced through our surveillance system.”

    It was also announced during the press conference that the South Coast Sewage Treatment plant will be upgraded at a cost of $2 million.

  29. John Avatar
    John

    Sargeant December 18, 2016 at 12:57 PM #
    @John
    Yours @9.31am
    Wouldn’t that mean that sewage would have been deposited in the sea rather than peoples’
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Correct

    But there is always the element of choice, you don’t have to go in the sea.

    If it is your front yard you got to walk through it!!

    … and the sea over time will take care of it, as horrible as that may sound.

    So long as there is a concentration of people in an area and water is an essential service for them, then they will use the water and create sewage.

    It is how we deal with it that counts.

    We are simply coming face to face with a universal truth.

    That’s why I keep out of the sea now, I figured it out, I have a choice.

  30. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    Barbadian citizens must either be the most stoic or the dumbest nationality in this world.

    I have just watched news clips on Barbados Today where two mature ladies were complaining that their area was not receiving any tap water. We seem to have conveniently forgotten that so many people on the island have been lacking a consistent supply of water. To compound this problem we have a major catastrophe with the melt down of our “sewage infrastructure”.

    What will it take for you people to get off your arse in your tens/ hundreds of thousands and to head to your parliament? Whilst there you need to demand from your government a full restoration of your water supply and to insist that they provide a functioning sewage infrastructure?

    Where is the merit in people complaining to the media or becoming keyboard warriors? The only language that your government will understand is boots on the ground. Are you people so spineless that you are prepared to live in a country governed by a set of people who have no respect for their citizens and who are so callous that they, truly, believe that the provision of water and providing an effective sewage system to her people has become an expensive luxury.

    Stop the long talk and agitate for change. This negligent government does not merit another day in power. That so many of you meekly accept your fate is a national disgrace and a slur on those from the Barbados diaspora. Shame on you!

  31. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    @ David,

    Good to know that the water is safe!

  32. David Avatar
    David

    @Exclaimer

    Is it?

    There is a crisis of trust in government.

  33. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “Barbadian citizens must either be the most stoic or the dumbest nationality in this world.”

    They were just last week boasting about being in the top 10 of having the best education system in the world….now you say this…lol

    “We were especially concerned about any potential back up into any of businesses rather than just in the car parks. We were able to find out that that was not the case, there were no backup in any of the restaurants. That is why our only action so far was the closure of the beach.”

    This is an outright lie. The poop is coming from somewhere and it has nowhere to go, I would not go in the water…period, these people are chronic liars.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/91532/public-health-risk-danger-ecosystems

  34. BELLYHURTEVENMORE Avatar
    BELLYHURTEVENMORE

    I would not trust any results of tests except for those taken by an independent group with no political yardfowl attachment to either party. Tests to be done randomly from Worthing Beach all around the south moving towards the west, for a couple of days, maybe as much as a week, and particularly when the sewage is bubbling up from manholes. Those sample should then be sent abroad to be tested and the results sent directly to the press, posted on social media and on the walls of schools and town halls including the airport for all to read. Done.

    We have been lied to so many times. The cover-ups have been blinding in their brightness. One thing that does not require a tremendous amount of brilliance is this:

    If shit is coming up through the manholes, into the streets, and into the swamp as well, it is going into the sea. If it going into the sea it is hitting the beach first and both will be infected with bacteria from fecal matter. Some can swim in our crystal clear waters and nothing might happen, but the risk of a huge health problem is there and I nor my family will be allowed to take that risk.

  35. Anonymous6 Avatar
    Anonymous6

    What about the catastrophe fund that Sinckler spoke about months ago? Can’t he use this to compensate those businesses on the south coast? I would like to think sewage in the streets affecting businesses is a catastrophe. Or is it funds from which the 50th celebrations were funded? Just asking.

  36. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    The MO of this government has been officially explained by the Minister of Education, Science and Innovation,on CBC NEWS tonight.
    “Run after the horse after it has bolted out of the stables.”
    http://i.imgur.com/CVnDnIK.jpg?1

  37. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    We in Barbados appear to have a very low opinion of the people we call Tourists, whether from the region or farther afield. Long before we had this present sewerage crisis on the South Coast, the Sewerage sub-Station at Welches, Christ Church, just upwind from the Doctor’s Office, stinks to high heaven. It always beat me why the brains of Oistins, including the Minister of Health who is the MP for that area, encourage the visitors from nearby hotels in Maxwell to visit the Bay Gardens at Oistin to enjoy a fish dinner, knowing that most of them will have to walk past this perpetual stinking sewerage plant sub-station.
    And to add insult to injury, construction of an apartment block, most likely catering to visitors, is being constructed within feet of this smelly plant.
    Looking Upstream . Like Andrews Sugar Factory, will the owners of this Apartment Block,when completed , take the Barbados Government to court to have all operations carried out at this sewerage plant ceased.

  38. David Avatar
    David

    The government has accepted it dropped the ball -sort of. Look for the political yardfowls to change tunes now.

    http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/91603/minister-sewage-plant-slip

    >

  39. Exclaimer Avatar
    Exclaimer

    If you would like to know the scale of our problem then i suggest that you read the article below. This is why the term “small island mentality” is used against our island home.

    https://www.barbadostoday.bb/2016/12/20/no-fallout-2/

  40. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Proves beyond a doubt that ALL yardfowls should be tied up in crocus bags and drowned in the Graeme Hall Swamp for their total uselessness, the ACs have to be feeling even more stupid than usual, with this admission of negligence and incompetence coming from the same Boyce who lied before about the cause of the sewage leak.

  41. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    @ WW&C

    Look for BU’s resident DLP yard-fowl playing the role of contortionists with their “political gymnastics” on this sewage issue, now John Boyce has, more or less, accepted responsibility.

    And also note the “war of words” between Boyce and his colleagues Donville Inniss and Harry Husbands relative to the sewage problem.

    Boyce distanced himself from Inniss’ comments re: “someone must be held accountable for the effluent bursting through manholes and affecting residents and businesses on the south coast,” and Husbands informing the Senate “it would cost government $1B to fix the entire system.”

    Boyce suggested that Inniss and Husbands did not know what they were talking about.

    “You don’t hear me too often with them kinda mouthings, do you? I like to know what I am speaking about most of the time. You have to ask these gentlemen these questions,” Boyce said. [Source: Barbados Today, December 19, 2016]

  42. John Avatar
    John

    John Boyce worked at Banks Breweries for years and is a mechanical engineer.

    Technically he will know about pumps, pumping systems and industrial processes.

    I think he is one out of 30 who can speak with authority on the sewage plant.

    Mia is a lawyer, Donville and Harry Husbands are ….. well what are Donville, and Harry Husbands?

    I am not saying I listen and follow blindly, he is a party man, what I am saying is that I hold him to a higher account. and follow his utterances carefully.

    I know his allegiance is to his party but I know he is an able mechanical engineer.

    I am not sure I agree with what he says about water quality and would not rush and go in the sea but that apart, where things mechanical are concerned, I pay attention to what he is saying.

    Perhaps we are both out of our depth on water quality.

    I would want to know more about how and when the testing was done.

    I would want to know more about the quality of water in Graeme Hall because at high tide, water will be forced in underground and at low tide, water will be extracted.

    I think it is important to know on which tide the testing of sea water was done and if there is a difference but I admit, I am no expert.

  43. ac Avatar
    ac

    If any one wants to understand he gravity and complexities of the problems surrounding the South West sewer plant taking a read of Dr. Mwasana findings would guide them in the right direction where his findings are scientifically sound with added expert advice and recommendations.
    Unfortunately the early morning political paling cocks of the blp out of stupid desperation would gladly accept and seize upon yardfowl political poop journalism as factual evidence

  44. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Art…I read the articles, all of them should be thrown out of parliament, not one seat or portfolio, I am surprised Maxine McClean did not continue putting in her 2 cents worth of lies, both she and Husbands proved themselves 2 dangerous liars in the Myrie matter, lies that cost the island to pay out money.

    Ya cant believe anything any of them and their yardfowls say. The best remedy is to put them all out of parliament….all of them, if Dumbville wants to remain now that he sees the writing on the wall and pretending he did not see or know any of this for 8 years, let him cross the floor…more fodder for the blogs.

    They are cowards and liars, I remember the eager 11 and their chicken coup to get rid of Fruendel…cowards all, easy for the majority population to fix with pay back.

  45. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    These days Fruendel and Co are trying to find ways around direct oiter buying, giving away xmas gifts, holding parties, wasting taxpayer’s money, giving appointments to cuvil servants who should have had them 8 years ago, appointments in exchange for votes, but the electorate has to beware.

    https://imgur.com/gallery/9hhFq2I

  46. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Colonel Buggy December 19, 2016 at 11:20 PM
    “We in Barbados appear to have a very low opinion of the people we call Tourists, whether from the region or farther afield. Long before we had this present sewerage crisis on the South Coast, the Sewerage sub-Station at Welches, Christ Church, just upwind from the Doctor’s Office, stinks to high heaven…”

    Welcome back, Colonel!

    We really missed your rather constructive contributions especially your pictorial evidence confirming the poor state of public sanitation in this once beautiful country when 7th standard educated men and women were tasked with the very important responsibility of keeping the island spick and span not only for the locals (including the plantations and great houses) but also to impress the visitors with the high standards Bajan exhibited in all aspect of life.

    This South Coast sewage problem is nothing new. As you rightly pointed out, the Oistins leak was acting up for a long time now and was drawn to the attention of the authorities on numerous occasions. Ask Bush Tea if you doubt the miller).

    But they continue in the country’s financial junkyard to play the game of Russian roulette with public sanitation thereby endangering not only the health of innocent people but also deliberately sabotaging the country’s last remaining source of reliable forex.

    It seems the bullet in the chamber is about to be aimed at the head of the Bajan economy, tourism.
    As the old people, whose only ‘technical’ qualification was a degree from the University of Commonsense, used to say:
    “Hard ears ya wont hear, bye and by ya gine feel”.

    Are you surprised that Fumble and his party hacks are now smelling the stench from the hangover of shit they have been dillydallying in for the past 2 years?

  47. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @David who wrote “The government has accepted it dropped the ball ”

    Let us hope there is no rain for 2 months until the plant is fixed.

  48. David Avatar
    David

    It must be a serious thing when a minister of government accepts his cabinet dropped the ball on a matter and political yardfowls continue to defend the action.

    Hignorance combined with stupidity knoweth no bounds!

  49. ac Avatar
    ac

    Today i nominate the Nations newspaper for the award

    Drum roll please

    The Nations Sewer pit of unethical practices and shitty journalism standards

    This paper is one of the many reason Barbados has become so politically divided because of the paper quickness to report fluff over substance to maintain and flourish the bottom line of the dollar while fully aware of a nation acceptance and having to the insatiable appetite for gossip
    the Nation newspaper should recognized and accepts its responsibilty as being guardians of truth and ethics in journalism and removed itself from being jolly riders of political ineptitude

  50. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    http://www.caribeez.com/barbados/barbados-weather

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