A Dutch team will begin work today to model the city’s drainage system as government implements recommendations to improve the drainage system.
“They are here for eight weeks to do the modelling and so,” Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson told Stabroek News recently. He said that the experts will begin work today even as he noted that government has already received the first part of the report in reducing the flood risk. “We are moving ahead with those recommendations right now,” he said.
Stabroek News reported last week that a report from a Dutch risk reduction team has said that a largely reactive approach to flood situations has worked well under the circumstances but the current flood management system is vulnerable and may collapse dramatically under extreme conditions. The report had urged a more proactive approach.
