Although the Mayor and City Council have been intensifying their efforts to avert flooding in Georgetown, they are still unable to effectively fulfil their mandate to the city, due to the current unacceptable state of the drainage system.And according to City Mayor Hamilton Green, the municipality is ill-financed to address such a major problem.Mayor Green told a press conference on Tuesday that, in order to rehabilitate the drainage system, about $2 billion would be required. He explained that the rehabilitation process would necessitate the reconfiguration of drains and culverts, among other things.He said that, after the floods of 2005, Central Government had promised to replace the pumps at Liliendaal and to provide the municipality with an additional source of electricity,Omar Infante Tigers Jersey, which was intended to help improve the drainage system to some extent.“What happens at Liliendaal is that when the Guyana Power and Light goes down, our pumps that are electrically driven become impotent. So we requested from the Government and GPL an additional transformer. We don’t have those kinds of resources…But I suppose that is yet to come.”It was anticipated, according to Mayor Green, that with the additional transformer the pumps would remain operational even if the GPL power source goes down in one section.“We would have had an alternative source of supply so that the pumps could work continuously. We received very generous promises,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and surveys were done at the end of the flood in 2005; but, to date, we have not yet even gotten the new pumps installed.”According to the mayor, a survey shows that the pump at Kitty had reached the end of its useful cycle. He said, too, that there were also proposals to rehabilitate the pumps at Liliendaal.“Those are the two main pumps (Kitty and Liliendaal) that help to drain most of the north and east of Georgetown, a fairly large area,” the mayor divulged.But until the municipality is able to secure the requisite implements for the effective operation of the drainage system, one of the municipality’s main focuses will remain on addressing the problem of indiscriminate dumping.We have seen around the markets that contractors would clean the place at 06:00 hours and by noon it is not recognisable.“We have to deal seriously with the problem of littering…This is an offence, and people could be charged for littering…This should not be taken lightly. We are in an extant environment that seems to be characterised by lawlessness …”But, according to the mayor,Wholesale NFL Jerseys Online, the municipality’s efforts are set back because of the size of the city and the personnel available to the Constabulary, the Personnel Department and the Engineer’s Department.As such,Chicago Cubs Jerseys, it is the view of Mayor Green that the problem could be addressed through the intervention of leaders of society, irrespective of their political,Jim Thome Indians Jersey, religious or social affiliations.“These little things indicate that time has come for a rebirth…This should be a non-partisan operation to deal frontally, not sporadically,wholesale jerseys china, with the level of lawlessness that is adversely affecting the city,” Mayor Green insisted.