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Amaila Falls Access Road to be completed by March 31 deadline

By Leroy Smith, Saturday, 1 February 2014, Source

 

Amaila Falls Access Road to be completed by March 31 deadline

Minister Robeson Benn is flanked by senior officers of the Ministry of Public Works

 

The Ministry of Public Works has announced, through its technical advisor Mr Walter Willis, that the new deadline for completion of the Amaila Fall Access Road is May 31, 2014. Willis had announced that the road was 80% completed as at December 31, 2013, compared to being only 30% completed as at December 31, 2012.


There are seven sections of the road at which works are being executed simultaneously by several contractors, Public Works Minister Robeson Benn stated yesterday, when he called a press conference at which he and several sectoral heads updated the media on the progress of work for the year 2013.


Willis outlined the percentage of works completed on each section of the road. Section 2A is said to be 89 percent completed, while section 2B is 32 percent completed. Section 3 is 73 percent completed, while section 4 has thus far recorded a 99 percent completion; and this is followed by section 5 with 98 percent completion, and section 6 with 55 percent completion. And finally, the longest stretch of the road, section 7, is 74 percent completed.

 

Contractors working on the road include China Railway, Mekdeci Machinery and Construction, Toolsie Persaud Quarries Inc, Ivor Allenye and Dwarka Nauth.

 

Willis told the media that laterite remains to be placed on all sections of the road, which stretches a total of 120 kilometres, but this depends on weather conditions.

 

He also pointed out that there is a 2.5 kilometre section of the road which is regarded as the swamp section, since it is very low and close to the river. Nevertheless, that section is being worked upon to ensure the completion date is met.

 

In addition to the road, there are several crossings and bridges, including two greenheart bridges and a steel one, which have to be completed by the end of March in order that the entire road to the Amaila Falls can be considered 100 percent completed.

 

The steel bridge is part of a separate contract, and the design was only recently submitted and agreed upon. The next stage entails securing a contractor by way of tender.

 

It is also being considered whether a pontoon should be used for crossing rather than the bridge.

 

The entire Amaila Falls Access Road is being financed from the national treasury, the Public Works Minister disclosed.

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Originally Posted by BGurd_See:

Is this a road to nowhere? The pNC/afc killed the amelia falls project in case you forgot. 

Needed killing. Another Skeldon factory in the making...900 million US ( and expected to double)....19% commitment to the return on value  with GPL continue  paying them some 125 million for 12 years and these fellows was passing it off as free....the audacity of these crooks.

FM
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Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:

Is this a road to nowhere? The pNC/afc killed the amelia falls project in case you forgot. 

Temporarily stalled, but not "killed".

 

It is in the process and will be up for review; as time permits.

 

Only "temporarily stalled" in the eyes of the senile and old diaper wearing ppp crowd

FM
Originally Posted by Danyael:
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:

Is this a road to nowhere? The pNC/afc killed the amelia falls project in case you forgot. 

Needed killing. Another Skeldon factory in the making...900 million US ( and expected to double)....19% commitment to the return on value  with GPL continue  paying them some 125 million for 12 years and these fellows was passing it off as free....the audacity of these crooks.

Can you find someone else to build it cheaper or a better location in refutation of the feasibility study done by independent firms and a public transparent bidding process? I don't think so, your motive is to set Guyana back into the dark ages to increase the chance of a cuffy taking over. 

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
Originally Posted by Danyael:
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:

Is this a road to nowhere? The pNC/afc killed the amelia falls project in case you forgot. 

Needed killing. Another Skeldon factory in the making...900 million US ( and expected to double)....19% commitment to the return on value  with GPL continue  paying them some 125 million for 12 years and these fellows was passing it off as free....the audacity of these crooks.

Can you find someone else to build it cheaper or a better location in refutation of the feasibility study done by independent firms and a public transparent bidding process? I don't think so, your motive is to set Guyana back into the dark ages to increase the chance of a cuffy taking over. 

no feasibility study was done. To do so, the Brazilian firm said, you need actual prolonged measurement of the water flow with an actual customized structure there in place.   In 2010 their conclusion that the highest flow is from June to September and it is not enough. We saw that graphically with it being dry some 8 weeks after its highest flow period. We need to build it ourselves albeit not with the clowns that built the Skeldon Factory or the ones who changed international clauses of builder being liable for for defects to the government being the responsible party as in the Airport deal. These are not patriots. They are crooks.

FM
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Originally Posted by Danyael:
no feasibility study was done. To do so, the Brazilian firm said, you need actual prolonged measurement of the water flow with an actual customized structure there in place.   In 2010 their conclusion that the highest flow is from June to September and it is not enough. We saw that graphically with it being dry some 8 weeks after its highest flow period.

No river or stream has prolonged actual flows to calculate the probabilities of occurrences for hydroelectric power developments; except the Nile River.

 

While indeed there was the occurrence of the eight-week dry period at the proposed location, there are adequate engineering, mathematical and statistical procedures and processes to estimate the various probabilities of occurrences plus the augmented flows to make the project operational.

FM
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Danyael:
no feasibility study was done. To do so, the Brazilian firm said, you need actual prolonged measurement of the water flow with an actual customized structure there in place.   In 2010 their conclusion that the highest flow is from June to September and it is not enough. We saw that graphically with it being dry some 8 weeks after its highest flow period.

No river or stream has prolonged actual flows to calculate the probabilities of occurrences for hydroelectric power developments; except the Nile River.

 

While indeed there was the occurrence of the eight-week dry period at the proposed location, there are adequate engineering, mathematical and statistical procedures and processes to estimate the various probabilities of occurrences plus the augmented flows to make the project operational.

No feasibility study was done.

Mitwah
Originally Posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

Ivor Allen was a PNC MP. How did he get a contract from this PPP gov't?  What's going on here?  I want an explanation.

 

Maybe he got rewarded by the PPP by just kill and rob some koolies like house of Isarel Joe Hamilton, lumbumba or the treason perp Bynoe...that would explain...

sachin_05
Originally Posted by Danyael:
 

no feasibility study was done. To do so, the Brazilian firm said, you need actual prolonged measurement of the water flow with an actual customized structure there in place.   In 2010 their conclusion that the highest flow is from June to September and it is not enough. We saw that graphically with it being dry some 8 weeks after its highest flow period. We need to build it ourselves albeit not with the clowns that built the Skeldon Factory or the ones who changed international clauses of builder being liable for for defects to the government being the responsible party as in the Airport deal. These are not patriots. They are crooks.

 

As usual we see your Howard education fail you once again.

Tell us why you believe no feasibility study was done and if so what exactly was Harza doing?

 

In 1998, Synergy Holdings Inc. joint-ventured with Harza Engineering Company (now called MW Harza Global) to fund and perform a detailed feasibility study and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the 1st Phase of this reduced AFHEP project (Phase I).  The developers agreed to review the expandability of the project at least to Phase II. A loan form the US Trade Development Agency (US TDA) was applied for and received to cover approximately 50% of the cost of this feasibility study with the developers paying the rest.

Between 1999 and 2001, A full feasibility study and EIA was carried out on site including surveying, drilling in excess of 400 meters, and several site visits by Harza engineers to evaluate the drill cores and the physical characteristics of the site and to install river gauging equipment downstream of the falls. A man-camp on site and an access road crew in excess of 50 personnel worked on this project for several months. Drilling equipment were flown in by helicopter, supplies came in by river and the ATV access road.

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
Originally Posted by Danyael:
 

no feasibility study was done. To do so, the Brazilian firm said, you need actual prolonged measurement of the water flow with an actual customized structure there in place.   In 2010 their conclusion that the highest flow is from June to September and it is not enough. We saw that graphically with it being dry some 8 weeks after its highest flow period. We need to build it ourselves albeit not with the clowns that built the Skeldon Factory or the ones who changed international clauses of builder being liable for for defects to the government being the responsible party as in the Airport deal. These are not patriots. They are crooks.

 

As usual we see your Howard education fail you once again.

Tell us why you believe no feasibility study was done and if so what exactly was Harza doing?

 

In 1998, Synergy Holdings Inc. joint-ventured with Harza Engineering Company (now called MW Harza Global) to fund and perform a detailed feasibility study and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the 1st Phase of this reduced AFHEP project (Phase I).  The developers agreed to review the expandability of the project at least to Phase II. A loan form the US Trade Development Agency (US TDA) was applied for and received to cover approximately 50% of the cost of this feasibility study with the developers paying the rest.

Between 1999 and 2001, A full feasibility study and EIA was carried out on site including surveying, drilling in excess of 400 meters, and several site visits by Harza engineers to evaluate the drill cores and the physical characteristics of the site and to install river gauging equipment downstream of the falls. A man-camp on site and an access road crew in excess of 50 personnel worked on this project for several months. Drilling equipment were flown in by helicopter, supplies came in by river and the ATV access road.

Ignoramus, Howard is beyond what you can ever hope to understand or grasp and its long line of alumnus who have done great things on this planet speak to that. The moronic yapping of no account bigoted ass like you, who is here because a Howard grad fought, and won, and overturned the prohibitions, to you coming here. I imagine you would be happy at the back of the bus since like a punk.

 

Now to the fact that the Brazilians were telling them they did not do a good job in 2010. They claim the did but no study ever was published so the one can have an understanding what it is they did. General descriptions is not a study. Find that so we can know the size of he reservoir etc.  Don't support the PPP blindly.

 

FM
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Originally Posted by Danyael:
 

Ignoramus, Howard is beyond what you can ever hope to understand or grasp and its long line of alumnus who have done great things on this planet speak to that. The moronic yapping of no account bigoted ass like you, who is here because a Howard grad fought, and won, and overturned the prohibitions, to you coming here. I imagine you would be happy at the back of the bus since like a punk.

 

Now to the fact that the Brazilians were telling them they did not do a good job in 2010. They claim the did but no study ever was published so the one can have an understanding what it is they did. General descriptions is not a study. Find that so we can know the size of he reservoir etc.  Don't support the PPP blindly.

 

Dummy in your rush to judgement, you claimed that no feasibility was done, I provided the company and date for the feasibility study. Don't attack the messenger, tell us why a dollar store clerk who graduated from Howard is more credible than Harza engineering firm. 

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
Originally Posted by Danyael:
 

Ignoramus, Howard is beyond what you can ever hope to understand or grasp and its long line of alumnus who have done great things on this planet speak to that. The moronic yapping of no account bigoted ass like you, who is here because a Howard grad fought, and won, and overturned the prohibitions, to you coming here. I imagine you would be happy at the back of the bus since like a punk.

 

Now to the fact that the Brazilians were telling them they did not do a good job in 2010. They claim the did but no study ever was published so the one can have an understanding what it is they did. General descriptions is not a study. Find that so we can know the size of he reservoir etc.  Don't support the PPP blindly.

 

Dummy in your rush to judgement, you claimed that no feasibility was done, I provided the company and date for the feasibility study. Don't attack the messenger, tell us why a dollar store clerk who graduated from Howard is more credible than Harza engineering firm. 

Because you are a PEON.

Mitwah
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:

..., you claimed that no feasibility was done, I provided the company and date for the feasibility study.

Feasibility studies plus consultations were conducted for the project

This Project was a PONZI scheme to enrich FIP and his boy HUG-de-HOE.

 

JUG-DE-HOE buy house is florida with the winnings.

FM
Originally Posted by BGurd_See:
Originally Posted by Danyael:
 

Ignoramus, Howard is beyond what you can ever hope to understand or grasp and its long line of alumnus who have done great things on this planet speak to that. The moronic yapping of no account bigoted ass like you, who is here because a Howard grad fought, and won, and overturned the prohibitions, to you coming here. I imagine you would be happy at the back of the bus since like a punk.

 

Now to the fact that the Brazilians were telling them they did not do a good job in 2010. They claim the did but no study ever was published so the one can have an understanding what it is they did. General descriptions is not a study. Find that so we can know the size of he reservoir etc.  Don't support the PPP blindly.

 

Dummy in your rush to judgement, you claimed that no feasibility was done, I provided the company and date for the feasibility study. Don't attack the messenger, tell us why a dollar store clerk who graduated from Howard is more credible than Harza engineering firm. 

Any one paid for a study can create one with pretense to actually doing it. We have a study on the Skeldon Plant. Jagdeo said we will gobble up all those contracts being let by the abandoning of sugar by other nations. We would be producing half a million tons by 2010. Are we?

 

A Miami firm is supposed to have done a feasibility study on the Marriott. We hear of it but on what model and where are the pro forma reports.?

 

 We had one on the Berbice river Bridge and the nation is subsidizing it to the tune of a 100 million a year even with its price gouging ticket strategy so what are you talking about here when we saw no study? In 2010 a caution was given that no actually reliable assessment was done and we saw that in evidence graphically with a picture of a dry river bed last year.

 

 

FM

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