A visit by Stabroek News to the $981,201,750 Pouderoyen Pump Station project site yesterday provided a firsthand look at the challenges hindering progress on the project which has a completion date of July next year.
No official of Spectre, the company building the station was on site but one of the workers explained that the primary factor behind delays has been the unpredictable water levels, which have been exacerbated by high tides and heavy rainfall.
“The water got we busy, like high tide, and plus the rainfall, that holding us back,” the worker said. “Three to four months into the new year we gonna finish, but you see when them guys inside they frighten the waves, plus with the wire rope when it start strawn (fray), it’s one strawning then the next. We trying to avoid it. We closed off for two weeks because the piles keep cracking. The water high tide was in, the dam was breaking through and flooding out the area, so we had to build back. This work here is just the water holding us back, you know”, the worker said.