Complaints about the dust resulting from corrective work ongoing at the median on the East Bank Demerara four-lane highway in the vicinity of Republic Park has led to the use of water to keep the dust level down.
Stabroek News revisited the area yesterday and discovered that the men working there were using water on the blade to keep the dust under control. This newspaper understands that a machine previously used against the dust was out of service hence the inconvenience created earlier in the week.
Wrong measurements given to the men casting the median, which stretches for about 50 metres from the entrance of Republic Park, led to it being built too high. The idea was for the median to be constructed at the same height of the foundations upon which utility poles along the highway are erected.
Technical Advisor to the Minister of Public Works Walter Willis said on Wednesday it was a bit of corrective work being done at a cost to the contracting firm Seereeram Brothers which is required to cover anything outside the specifications.
Construction of the US$10.6M four-lane highway began in November 2003 and was set for a completion date in 2005, but because of bad weather, late delivery of materials, equipment collapse, and increased fuel and cement prices, it was extended to August 2006.
