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January 15, 2007
Governor meets with Williams Delight’s Residents to Discuss Drainage and Road Improvements in Frederiksted Community Gov. John deJongh and officials of the Public Works department on Sunday assured residents of St. Croix’s Williams Delight community that work on major drainage problems in their neighborhood will begin in earnest by the middle of this week. The contractor, Tip Top Construction, has already begun to prepare the work site for a nine-month project that will be dominated by the installation of underground concrete box culverts. The culverts will take run off water from the hillside out to sea and away from the Frederiksted community which has been subjected to flooding for years. The governor was joined at the meeting Sunday afternoon by Acting Public Works Commissioner Robert Moorhead, PWD Asst. Commissioner for Engineering Aloy Nielsen and Public Works Project Manger Roberto Cintron. The officials told residents assembled for a monthly meeting Sunday that the first part of the project for which $1.77 million has already been approved will see the placement of the culverts and another phase of the project will see the rehabilitation of roadways and curbs in the William’s Delight community. Residents restated their long standing concerns about when work would actually begin, noting they have been promised relief to the problems for months but those promises never materialized. DeJongh reiterated his administration’s commitment to resolving the decades old flooding problem through a meticulously planned approach “to address removing the runoff water to sea and later, repairing and rehabilitating the roadways in the west-end community. Officials of Tip Top Construction assured both the administration representatives and residents of William’s Delight that heavy equipment will be staged in the area by mid-week ahead of work on the first phase of the project. |
