And while the pumping station in Yarborough can't help with the very high tides, it does help with flooding from the rain. And the mayor explained that by the end of the year they'll be taking it over fully, and other areas may soon see their own stations.
Bernard Wagner, Mayor of Belize City
"The pumping station, initially pilot project, it's now fully commissioned, we are supposed to fully take it over ending of December here from MIDH. Our people have been trained, our engineers are in place, it's a model that can work in the city because there's no longer this system, I was reading a report, of drainage being able to address climate change, it has to be something similar to pumping stations and the report that I received from the IDB that they were supposed to look at pumping stations in the Holy Emmanuel area and in the Belama area as well. And they were supposed to work in unison, the three of them working together. So I believe at sometime down the road we'll have to look at those sort of facilities in those other two areas as well."
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