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facilitate final payments for refurbishment works undertaken at North Oropouche Water
Treatment Plant.
350.
The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) will focus attention on improvement
of its water supply to customers in Tobago. Funding in the amount of $15 million will be
provided for the collective replacement of 28.7 km of oversized and/or leaking
distribution pipelines. Areas to benefit include Sangsters Hill, Buccoo, Montgommery
and Bon Accord. An additional $10 million will also facilitate the replacement of
approximately 39 km of distribution pipelines in areas of Pembroke, Bacolet Gardens,
Storebay, Culloden, Studley Park, Plantation, Carnbee, Glen Road and Mason Hall. The
sum of $3.8 million has been provided to commence dredging and excavation works at
the Hillsborough Dam in Tobago.
351.
Water main installation projects will be advanced by Local Government
Authorities in communities of Arima, Point Fortin, Diego Martin,
Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo, and Princes Town with funding of $1.8 million. The
construction of public baths and conveniences will also be undertaken by the Arima
Borough Corporation and the Siparia Regional Corporation.
Sewerage
352.
As WASA progresses in its efforts to improve efficiency of sewerage plant
operations and effluent quality in Trinidad and Tobago, the sum of $14.6 million has
been allocated to assist the rehabilitation works being undertaken at the Edinburgh 500
WWTP and the Mt Hope Lift Station in Trinidad. In Tobago, works related to the
rehabilitation of the Scarborough WWTP and the upgrade of South West Tobago will be
pursued with funding of $3 million and $10 million respectively.
353.
The IDB-assisted programme, the
Improvement of Trinidad and Tobago
Wastewater Systems
will be provided $20 million to pursue construction of lift stations,
new trunk sewers and integration of existing wastewater networks. In fiscal year 2014
another IDB-assisted programme the
Multi-Phase Wastewater Rehabilitation Program –
Phase I
will be implemented with a provision of $8 million. The total estimated cost of
the Programme is US$34.1 million (TT$215.1 million). Phase I will comprise the
procurement of a programme manager with responsibility for the review of design
documents, general project administration and programme monitoring.
Roads and Bridges
354.
For fiscal 2014, a total of $929 million has been provided for the continuation of
roads and bridges rehabilitation that commenced in fiscal 2013, and the implementation
of new projects throughout Trinidad and Tobago.
