A mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar plan to ad­dress flood­ing in Port-of-Spain will be im­ple­ment­ed soon. The first pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the is­sue was sched­uled to be held yes­ter­day at City Hall, Port-of-Spain, at 10.30 am but was post­poned be­cause the venue had been dou­ble-booked by the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties.

Di­anne Wells, man­age­ment of­fi­cer for the geo-tech­ni­cal com­pa­ny Cap­i­tal Sig­nal, which was award­ed the first of nine pack­ages by the Min­istry of Works for the plan, said the meet­ing had been resched­uled to Oc­to­ber 10 at the same venue and time. Port-of-Spain and oth­er ar­eas in north­ern Trinidad re­cent­ly were af­fect­ed by heavy floods which dam­aged and de­stroyed prop­er­ty and re­sult­ed in two deaths. Those af­fect­ed cit­ed poor drainage as a ma­jor prob­lem.

The project, Wells said, was ex­pect­ed to take ap­prox­i­mate­ly ten to 18 months to com­plete and would mean ex­ca­vat­ing streets in Port-of-Spain. She said pack­age one was se­lect­ed be­cause of its im­pact and the num­ber of peo­ple it would af­fect. The T&T Guardian un­der­stands the that pack­age would cost up­wards of $50 mil­lion. The com­pa­ny, which client is the Min­istry of Works, will in­stall wide, shal­low un­der­ground in­ter­cep­tor drains around Queen Street which will car­ry the wa­ter to Dun­can Street east, to South Quay and in­to the sea.