WASA launches $20M wastewater project in Beetham Gardens

The Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA), in part­ner­ship with the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, to­day of­fi­cial­ly launched a TT$20 mil­lion waste­water pipeline re­place­ment project aimed at bring­ing long-await­ed re­lief to the res­i­dents of Beetham Gar­dens.

The ma­jor in­fra­struc­ture in­ter­ven­tion seeks to re­solve per­sis­tent, long­stand­ing sew­er­age is­sues caused by the de­te­ri­o­ra­tion of the com­mu­ni­ty’s main waste­water pipeline.

Lead­ing a me­dia en­gage­ment and work­site tour at the cor­ner of 5th Street and Main Road, Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Clyde El­der, reaf­firmed the gov­ern­ment's ded­i­ca­tion to de­liv­er­ing crit­i­cal in­fra­struc­ture im­prove­ments na­tion­wide.

El­der em­pha­sised that the project aligns di­rect­ly with of­fi­cial man­dates to pro­vide prop­er ser­vices and mod­ern in­fra­struc­ture to cit­i­zens.

The scope of works in­volves re­plac­ing 569 lin­ear feet of com­pro­mised waste­water pipeline along Main Road, specif­i­cal­ly be­tween 5th and 7th Streets. To min­i­mize dis­rup­tion to the road­way and the sur­round­ing neigh­bour­hood, con­trac­tors will em­ploy ad­vanced trench­less in­stal­la­tion tech­nol­o­gy. This method­ol­o­gy al­lows the new 47-inch di­am­e­ter pipeline to be laid ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20 feet be­low the sur­face, be­neath the ex­ist­ing in­ter­cep­tor drain.

WASA Act­ing Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Dain Ma­haraj, stat­ed that the ini­tia­tive rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant ef­fort to re­lieve lo­cal res­i­dents while up­hold­ing en­vi­ron­men­tal com­pli­ance across Trinidad and To­ba­go. Ma­haraj not­ed that the se­lec­tion of trench­less tech­nol­o­gy is vi­tal for re­duc­ing sur­face dis­rup­tion while achiev­ing the nec­es­sary depth for the mas­sive pipeline.

Sino­hy­dro Cor­po­ra­tion Lim­it­ed has been con­tract­ed to ex­e­cute the project. Ac­tive con­struc­tion works are sched­uled to com­mence in mid-Au­gust 2026, with a pro­ject­ed com­ple­tion time­line of nine months.

Dur­ing Thurs­day's launch, me­dia rep­re­sen­ta­tives toured the ac­tive site and en­gaged with en­gi­neer­ing per­son­nel re­gard­ing the tech­ni­cal ex­e­cu­tion of the project, which sig­nals a ma­jor turn­around for the Beetham en­vi­ron­ment.