Dutch engineering students taken on tour of city

By Alva Solomon

DEPUTY Mayor Sherod Duncan yesterday led a team, including a group of visiting Dutch engineering masters degree students, around the city on a tour of the drainage and irrigation systems in various parts of the city.As reported earlier this week, the students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands will be working collaboratively with several agencies, including the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), on a computer (hydraulic) model for drainage in parts of Georgetown, to help predict the vulnerability of certain areas during rainfall.

Prior to moving off from City Hall, Duncan, who is performing the functions of mayor, told reporters that the visit around the city was opportune for both the visitors and the municipality, since the latter has the responsibility to maintain the capital city’s drainage systems.

“It is very useful that the Dutch are here; it will impact the city in a great way,” Duncan said. He said also that the M&CC took the liberty of inviting the team of engineers to view the administrative structure of the municipality.

The team was exposed to the drainage system on Water Street, as well as North and South Rumveldt in the South Georgetown ward. “It’s a fact-finding mission of sorts,” he said, noting that persons who know the two areas can tell their history as regards flooding.

Duncan and several councillors at the M&CC, including Oscar Clarke and Akeem Peter, accompanied the engineering students on the tour which commenced at the koker outside Bounty Supermarket on Water Street. The team then headed to inspect the koker within the Muneshwer’s complex further north along Water Street.

The team made several other stops along Water Street, followed by inspecting the drainage system at the Kitty seawall and at Liliendaal on the East Coast of Demerara. This was followed by inspections of the drainage network at North and South Rumveldt, two areas which are usually plagued by flooding.

The team will be working alongside local engineers to measure parts of the drainage system while putting a computer (hydraulic) model together from which they will be able to say which areas in Georgetown are vulnerable for flooding at any time during rainfall.

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