A new drainage project was launched today in the Buttonwood Bay area. It will address the infrastructure needs of over six hundred area residents with the installation of close to six thousand feet of concrete drains with covers for sidewalks, as well as the replacement of driveways, walkways and installations of new culverts.
7news spoke to Area Rep and Minister of State Santino Castillo – who told us about the importance of this drainage project.
Santino Castillo - Minister of State
"Well today we're launching the Buttonwood Bay drainage project. This is a project that was in the pipeline when I went to the Ministry of Economic Development and it is one of the projects that I pushed real hard because it falls in my constituency, Caribbean Shores. To bring it to fruition, it is a $1m Drainage Project specifically in this area that will directly affect 600 residents. It's to fix all the drains. It was put out to contract, the contract was won by Medina's construction and it is being funded by the Caribbean Development Bank to the tune of $941,000 with the balance being a counter finance by Government for a total of $998,000 - just short of a million dollars. Just walking in this area especially during the campaign, I noted that one of their biggest complaints was their drainage problems - No drainage or poor drainage - no culverts. This project will address all of the above, all of the problems concerning drainage, culverts will be addressed. We are working in tandem with BWS who have to arrange their sewer pipes and get started. Medina actually starts tomorrow. This is a five month project so in the next five months we're launching it and it should be completed."
The project is expected to be completed in the next 5 months.
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