Dear Editor,
SOMETHING is fundamentality wrong with the composition of the city council engineering corps. It is impossible for year to year the city continues to flood and absolutely no one at City Hall can produce any data to support the reason for this event.
The whole country is aware of the location of the city but that should never negate the cause for this flooding during the rainy season. This clearly outlines two things: either City Hall lacks the engineering science in its engineers or they simply do not command engineering.
Flooding stems from several causes: record-breaking rainfall, poor maintenance of drainage infrastructure, poor interpretation of rainfall data and design to suit the existing infrastructure, inadequate storm water management design and analysis, among several other data collection. Since there is no presentation by the city council from its engineers to outline steps that they’re taking through an engineering approach this problem will persist for a long time. City Council will always be the focal point during rainfall seasons regardless of the stellar engineers at the Ministry of Public Infrastructure. That reason is not only for the remit of City Hall for the city itself, but because for years that local organ has been the place of complaint for flooding. Charles Ceres, who was a long-serving engineer in this country for many years and fully command engineering science from his overseas training, should step in to save those engineers from any further embarrassment. If he needs to work with them closely, let that be or if there is a need for additional engineers with a command of engineering science, then let that also be, but until then City Hall will never be able to improve not only perception, but addressing inundation of the city’s terrain with its current engineering corps not doing real engineering.
Regards
Terrell Waveney Roberts