By Rayon Dyer, Gleaner WriterST. ELIZABETH:
LESTER BEHARIE, Chief Public Health Inspector for St. Elizabeth, has raised concern about the unfinished sewage treatment plant in phase one of the National Housing Development Corporation (NHDC) Operation PRIDE Scheme at Luana, in the parish.
With approximately 200 residents living in the scheme, with no formal sewage treatment system or plant, the public is at risk of an outbreak of a serious epidemic.
At a recent meeting of the public health committee of the St. Elizabeth Parish Council, Mr. Beharie sought to know what has become of the promised agreement between the council and the health department to recommend and approve building plans for the Luana development, on condition that there would be no occupancy of these buildings until the central sewage plant was installed.
"I want to remind this meeting that the NHDC had assured the council earlier this year that the pump for the Luana sewage plant was in the island and would take approximately three months for it to be installed", Mr. Beharie said.
The chief public health Inspector also explained that, arising from the slow approach by the NHDC in tackling the serious problem in the development at Luana, the health department is considering issuing a stop order on any further building plans submitted for approval at Luana until the sewage plant is installed.
