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Table 4.3: List of Post Offices Damaged by Hurricane Dean on August 19, 2007 Parish Post Office Nature of Damage Estimated Cost of Repairs $ Kingston/ St Andrew Hagley Park Sections of roof 640,000 Denham Town Sections of roof 250,000 St Catherine Ewarton Sections of roof 120,000 Old Harbour Sections of roof 120,000 Old Harbour Bay Sections of roof 446,200 St Ann Laughlands Sections of roof 480,000 Manchester Newport Roof sheetings, 520,000 window and flooring Clarendon Lionel Town Roof sheeting 450,000 ceiling May Pen Roof sheeting 200,000 Toll Gate Section of roof 120,000 ceiling Race Course Roof/Ceiling 250,000 Hayes Perimeter Fence 100,000 St James Montego Bay #2 Skylights blown off 100,000 Ken Jones Windows 130,000 [Relocated] *Lottery (Rented) Roof completely [Relocated] gone Westmoreland Bethel Town Sections of Roof 300,000 Bluefields Sections of Roof 700,000 Whitehouse Sections of Roof 150,000 Ramble Sections of Roof 600,000 TOTAL 5,676,200 Source: Post &Telecommunications Division Closed and Relocated Offices: (1) Lottery relocated and operating at Sign P O in Montego Bay (2) Old Harbour Bay - closed and operations are now at the Old Harbour Post Office, St Catherine (3) Ken Jones - closed and operations are now at Hopewell Post Office, Hanover 58
3. Transport, Roads and Bridges Both main roads maintained by the National Works Agency (NWA) and by Parish Councils (PCs) suffered heavy damage due to the onslaught of Hurricane Dean. As in Hurricane Ivan, the road connecting Kingston and the Norman Manley International Airport was affected by storm surge causing flooding in the area of the Harbour View round-a-bout and piling sand approximately1.5 meters high along the length of the road. Storm surge also caused heavy damage to the coastal roads in St. Thomas and Portland. Some of the major arterial roads that sustained damage and blockage included the following: 1. Goshen Main Road, St. Elizabeth 2. The Yallahs Ford, St. Thomas 3. Junction Main Road, St Mary The National Works Agency (NWA) reported that a total of 446 roadways were blocked by fallen trees, debris, washed down silt and landslips due to the hurricane. Parishes hardest hit were Portland, St. Thomas and St. Catherine with the cost to reopen and restore amounting to a high of $332.08 million in St. Thomas. The total cost to reopen NWA and PC roads was estimated at $545.97 million while the cost to restore NWA roads is set at $566.38 million. The total effect of the disaster on the road transport sector was estimated as $1.112 billion. Cost to re-open includes clearing of slips/blockages of roads, temporary repairs to roads and cleaning of critical drains. Balance to complete includes restoration of asphaltic and unasphaltic roads, cleaning of blocked drains, and repair of kerb/channel, relay culverts and construction/reconstruction of Retaining wall (see Table 4.4). NWA has estimated that there will be an additional cost of $755.0 million for river training, gabion works and sea defence to correct damage in eight parishes. The cost to repair and replace retaining walls in four parishes is $160.0 million while it is estimated to cost $20.0 million to refurbish and/replace damaged traffic signals across the island. Twelve days after the event there were still 47 affected intersections located in Kingston & St. Andrew, St. Catherine, Manchester, St. James, Clarendon and St. Elizabeth where traffic signals were non-operational. This was due to the lack of electrical supply at 30 of these intersections, 59
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ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AN
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Executive Summary As at October 26,
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Environmental impacts of Hurricane
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PREFACE This report is prepared to
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Hurricane Dean was upgraded to a ma
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down just after 1800 UTC (1300 loca
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Page 73 and 74: Habitat Loss. Both terrestrial and
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