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Sewerage
125.
The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) will continue to focus on rehabilitation and
expansion of the wastewater systems to increase the quality of wastewater services to customers
and improve the effluent discharge into the environment. Implementation of the IDB-assisted
Programme for Improvement of Trinidad and Tobago Wastewater Systems will continue from
fiscal 2013 with its main focus of rehabilitation and expansion of private Wastewater Treatment
Plants in Maloney and Chaguanas catchments. The Authority will also place effort on improving
efficiency of private Wastewater Treatment Plants in Malabar and San Fernando through another
IDB-assisted programme – Multi-Phase Wastewater Rehabilitation.
Roads and Bridges
126.
About $3.5 billion has been projected for expenditure on the construction and
maintenance of highways, major and secondary roads, bridges and landslip throughout Trinidad
and Tobago. This includes $75 million for the completion of the interchange at the intersection
of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway and the Uriah Butler Highway in December 2013. Other
major projects include:
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Valencia By Pass Road, the construction of which will be executed in three phases.
Phase I will be the rehabilitation of Barbuda Extension and will include construction
of concrete drainage channels. In Phase II, Silica Sands Road will be rehabilitated
and widened to include two lanes and shoulders. The final Phase will be the
construction of a new roadway that will take commuters to the Eastern Main Road
after Valencia Junction. This phase will require the construction of two bridges, one
over the Valencia River and the other over the Aripo River
•
The Diego Martin Highway expansion which involves widening of the existing
southbound carriageway from two to three lanes from Morne Coco Road to Western
Main Road, inclusive of retaining walls and box drain construction; structural works
(culvert extensions) along the entire route (approximately 1.5 km); construction of
two northbound lanes from Victoria Gardens to Acton Court (parallel to the existing
southbound lanes) and realignment of the existing southbound lanes, between Acton
Court and Morne Coco Road. These improvements will result in Diego Martin
Highway functioning, for the first time, as a dual carriageway from Western Main
Road to Acton Court and consequently, by extension, to Wendy Fitzwilliam
Boulevard
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The Bridges Programme is specifically aimed at the reconstruction of dilapidated or
dysfunctional bridges located primarily along the national road network. To date
sixty (62) Bridges have been identified as needing urgent reconstruction and will be
constructed in various phases over a 5 year period commencing in 2013 and is
estimated to cost TT$404.25. The first phase will target twenty-two (22) bridges
•
The Landslip Repair Programme is specifically aimed at the repair/construction of
landslips located along the national road Network, which has reduced the travelled
roadway width and threatened to or have caused the collapse of buildings. The first
phase consists of thirty-three (33) landslips throughout Trinidad.
