In April 2016, a GIS News team visited the Douglas-Charles Airport after the Melville Hall River flooded its banks again six months after Tropical Storm Erika.
In an effort to ensure resilience against flooding, construction of a river wall began as well as dredging to mitigate the damage of future occurrences.
GIS’ cameras visited the airport at that time and spoke with CEO of DASPA, Benoit Bardouille.
At that time restoration work had already begun.
Bardouille revealed that the river wall’s structure would be different this time. He explained that the wall would be more protective and accompanied by rock armour.
The DASPA CEO also explained that some dredging had already taken place.
Work began in December 2015 and is expected to be completed before the start of this hurricane season.
With the onset of what is anticipated to be busy hurricane season, Lourianne Graham-Carter met with the DASPA CEO on Wednesday, May 11th to get an update on the Douglas-Charles Airport project.
