PHILIPSBURG:--- The Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment & Infrastructure (VROMI), the Honorable Egbert J. Doran, informed the general public on the updates regarding the works conducted in the Dutch Quarter with regard to the longstanding issue of sewage water settling on the public road.
The Ministry of VROMI noted, after a thorough inspection, that illegal connections onto the incomplete sewage system caused the constant overflow of sewage water coming from the pits and settling at the lowest point in the road. Immediate actions were taken by the Department of New Projects, the Department of Infrastructure Management, and the contracting company, due to the unsanitary environment this issue has posed to residents in the community.
Last week Thursday, December 10th, 2020, the works were carried out and were completed by Friday, December 11th, 2020. Although the works temporarily interrupted the flow of traffic on the A.T. Illidge Road for that day, an effective detour route was implemented. In efforts to repair and stop the constant flow of the raw sewage water onto the public road, the 5 sewage inspection pits were pumped. The road had been excavated in order to repair the sewage pit and has been repaved in the meantime.
