HE SHOULD LEND HIS SKILLS TO CITY HALL ENGINEERS

Jun 25, 2017 Letters, http://www.kaieteurnewsonline....city-hall-engineers/

Dear Editor,

Charles Ceres who is a long serving engineer in this country and has a full command of engineering science due to his overseas training should step in to save those engineers from any further embarrassment.

Terrell Waveney Roberts

Perhaps.

There was a study in 2015 by Delft university but the PNC/AFC swept the findings and recommendations under the rug. 

ANALYSIS OF DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Delft University of Technology, November 14th 2016
Team members: Delft University supervisors: Guyanese stakeholders:
Joost Remmers Prof. dr. ir. J.C. Winterwerp National Task Force Secretariat
Jos Muller ir. S. Pasterkamp Ministry of Agriculture
Ruben van Montfort Ministry of Public Infrastructure
Thijmen Jaspers ****s DRR Team supervisors: University of Guyana
Peter Vijn ir. F. Westebring
Siebe Dorrepaal ir. R. Steijn Guyanese supervisor:
Martijn van Wijngaarden A. Braamskamp dr. Sewnauth Punallal

In the past and most recently in 2015 Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, suffered from severe flooding
during high intensity rainfall. After the 2015 flood a Dutch Risk Reduction team (DRR Team) visited
Georgetown on the request of the Government of Guyana and made a first analysis of the flood
vulnerability of Georgetown and the coastal lowlands of Guyana. Recommendations were formulated by
the DRR team to improve the flood resilience of the city on the short and long term, as well as
interventions to increase local capacity that will be required to deal with future water management
challenges.
As a very first step a team of seven MSc Civil Engineering students from Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands, started a project in the summer of 2016 based on the recommendations of the DRR Team.
The project work and its corresponding results are presented in this report. It consists of three analyses,
which all together describe the process from rainfall to discharge out of the capital’s urban drainage
system.
We want to thank our supervisors from the Netherlands (prof. Winterwerp, ir. Pasterkamp from Delft
University of Technology and ir. Westebring and ir. Steijn from the DRR team). Besides that the
representatives from the Dutch Embassy in Paramaribo deserve much credit for helping organise this
project. Also we want to express our gratitude to all the motivated persons which were involved from
several authorities and institutions in Guyana (National Task Force, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of
Public Infrastructure, Mayor and City Council and University of Guyana). Last but not least we would like to
thank our protocol officer Christine Mohammed Douglas for her great help in organizing a variety of
events and Mr. Pierce, our driver. Without their extraordinary effort the project would have looked very
different.

Drugb posted:

There was a study in 2015 by Delft university but the PNC/AFC swept the findings and recommendations under the rug. 

ANALYSIS OF DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN GEORGETOWN, GUYANA
Delft University of Technology, November 14th 2016

As a very first step a team of seven MSc Civil Engineering students from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, started a project in the summer of 2016 based on the recommendations of the DRR Team.

Just like many other things done by the PNC/AFC.

As a minimum, the report will be a reminder of what should have been done, but no follow-up was effected by the PNC/AFC.