Paphos Life

THE authorities have finally stepped in to help residents of the misnamed and blighted Paradise Hills, a housing development in Marathounda Paphos, to prevent a repetition of last winter's heavy flooding caused by a rainwater drainage pipe positioned right above the site....

Read the article and chat about it below...

Well this is certainly good news for those involved. But what a strange time of your to think of doing drainage work like this. Surely it would have been better to have done something in the last 6 months, not wait until the rainy season starts.

trevnhil wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2017 8:51 am Well this is certainly good news for those involved. But what a strange time of your to think of doing drainage work like this. Surely it would have been better to have done something in the last 6 months, not wait until the rainy season starts.

It would make sense if they can use the opportunity, as through Marathounda village all the main road is open at the moment. Minthis Golf is laying a more than 10 km long pipe from the Paphos Sewerage plant up to the Golf in order to pump water to use for their greens. So if they can use the same trench for their storm pipe it could be done within a few weeks before winter rain starts...and save a lot of costs as well. By the way: the works for this large project started already in June and parts of the main road from Konia to Episkopi is still only open for 1 lane..but they obviously realized that we have a water problem.

Max

Hopefully all golf courses are obliged to use recycled water.. the Paphos area does not have a desalination plant at present and all reservoirs are only about 25% full.

Dee