The Housing and Water Ministry is pulling out all the stops to ensure that persons who acquire lands in new housing developments can have access to roads, water, power and green spaces.
According to Minister Collin Croal, the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has been working tirelessly to improve the access to safe, reliable and affordable water supply along the East Bank Corridor.
“As a result, treated water is projected to expand to more than 45,000, an increase in water coverage from 95% up from the 52% that previously obtained,” he said.
The Minister also reported that water treatment plants at Eccles and Covent Garden have been upgraded and expanded, along with the installation of a new plant at Caledonia which will service from New Hope to Soesdyke.
He added that more than 13 Km of transmission and distribution mains will be installed to provide treated water service to the new housing schemes located in Little Diamond, Prospect, Providence and the communities to be developed along the Eccles to Diamond four-lane road.
In addition, a new well will be completed at Providence by the end of next month, and a new well is planned for Eccles which will provide expanded service and improved service quality to the residents across this corridor.
Regarding infrastructure, Croal said that works at Prospect, Little Diamond and, Great Diamond and on the four-lane Highway from Mandela to Eccles are nearing the completion stage, while those at Providence Blocks 1 and 2 are fully completed and are to the tune of $6.8 million dollars.
He noted that the ministry is now embarking on new infrastructural projects in other areas within Great Diamond, Golden Grove, Little Diamond and Peter’s Hall as well as upgrading roads at Herstelling, Perseverance, Peter’s Hall, Experiment and Eccles. These infrastructural projects and road upgrades will cost close to 14.8 billion dollars. Contracts for these projects have been awarded and are in the signing stage, with works slated to begin shortly.
When the cost for the construction of the new 4 lane Highway from Eccles to Great Diamond which stands at 13.3B is added to the new stock of projects, the total sum for new investments in the East Back corridor is expected to be a staggering 28 billion dollars, the Minister said.