Charlestown, Nevis (8th June 2017): The New River & Coconut Walk Estate’s Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control project in Nevis is on track to provide important benefits to stakeholder groups on the island.
Several natural and human activities such as sea level rise, illegal sand mining and overgrazing have caused sections of the coastal slopes in the area to be severely eroded. The project seeks to stabilize the slope and control erosion by implementing structural mitigation measures including the placement of a 65m long rip-rap and bioengineering works to re-vegetate the area.
According to Mr. Floyd Liburd, Forestry Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture in Nevis and Focal Point for the project, stakeholders such as farmers who live and work in the area will reap tremendous benefits from the measures that are being put in place to protect the coast and adjacent historic buildings such as the Lime Kiln ruin at New River Estate.
“Everyone in the area will benefit. Farmers in the area will benefit. Tourists will also benefit because the area can become a tourist attraction. There is a lime kiln in the area already and this would just add to the value of that attraction,” said Liburd.
“Farmers would benefit because the plants that would be placed along the coast would intercept some of the salt spray that were affecting melons and tomatoes and so on in that area. And so famers and the general public stand to gain from this project,” he added.
The Project is a collaboration between the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA), the European Union and the OECS Commission. It seeks to build awareness of global climate change as well as to build the capacity of Member States to address the effects of climate change.
The local contractor for the Project is Lefco Equipment Rental and Construction Company Ltd.
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