New $200 million Greenfield pump station to boost East Coast drainage

President Donald Ramotar at the Greenfield Drainage Pump Station. Inset: President and others take a closer look at the discharge capacity of the new station. (Government Information Agency photos)

The $200 million Greenfield drainage pump station, designed to drain approximately 3,000 acres of residential and farm lands on the East Coast of Demerara, was commissioned on Thursday.

The pump station will be operated at a combined discharge capacity of 300-cubic feet per second and will be managed by the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) to serve the areas extending from Unity and Hope Estate in the east, and Crown Dam in the south,