By Vanessa Braithwaite

LINDEN Mayor Carwyn Holland has said that Central Government has responded positively to a request made by the Linden Mayor and Town Council (M&TC) to finance the upgrading of the deplorable road leading to the Kara Kara dumpsite.Holland told this publication that the contract for the project is in the process of completion and this move has been welcomed as Linden has been struggling with environmentally acceptable garbage disposal over the past years.

Currently garbage is being disposed of in proximity to the Dakoura Creek from which water for the entire Wismar shore is sourced.

Residents had earlier in the year made an alarm to the authorities about the indiscriminate dumping of garbage at the creek’s water shed area which was resulting in leaching into the creek.

Private companies such as Cevon’s Waste Management, as well as other entities such as the M&TC and the Wismar Hospital were allegedly practicing improper dumping at the watershed.

Such an environmental lapse was brought to the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from which an order came to close down the dump site.

This, however, was not immediately done as the other dumpsite located at Kara Kara was difficult to access due to the deplorable state of the road.

Mayor Holland contented that better access to the dumpsite would not eliminate all the problems as the Council does not have adequate facilities for effective garbage collection.

“Having the facility is one thing, but having the equipment to actually pick up the garbage around the town… that’s the other one… we are basically handicapped, we are limped when it comes to garbage collection and we don’t have a compactor truck to assist and aid in the pickup of garbage and we need to have such facilities to be able to better serve our Linden community,” he said.

With several bins being donated by various organisations, the Mayor explained that these are not having its full use as the Council is only furnished with one tractor and one truck for garbage collection.
He however resolves to continue fighting for proper garbage disposal in Linden.