The Linden Interim Management Committee (IMC) Chairman has criticized a $12M revetment project, financed by the Region Ten Democratic Council (RDC), but has announced that the Linden Town Council hopes to utilize the facility to raise additional revenue for the municipality.
Expressing his disappointment in the project on which the RDC said that it spent $12M reveting the western bank of the Demerara River in the vicinity of the Wismar Municipal Market, Orrin Gordon told local journalists: “That is no revetment – all the work was done on solid ground. Revetment is when you reclaim land that had been consumed by a body of water.”
He added that the RDC claimed to have spent $12M but only half of the intended work was done. He further said that eight feet could have been recovered. “You multiply eight feet by 240 – that would give you the amount of square footage that we would have recovered.”
Reiterating that the town council intends to utilize the revetment opposite the Wismar Market as one of its new revenue earning options for 2015, Gordon disclosed that the town council will erect and rent ten stalls on the southern side of the new facility. Already, vendors, shoppers, and persons, who do business in the vicinity of the market use the area as a car park. He added that it is intended that further work will be done in the area to make it an all-weather surface.
