Access Engineering completes St. Sebastian Canal bank protection work

26 September 2016 12:00 am

Access Engineering PLC, the leading engineering enterprise in Sri Lanka, successfully completed the canal bank revetment work in the St. Sebastian South Canal, under the Metro Colombo Urban Development Project.

The project, which was spearheaded by Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation under the guidance of the Megapolis and Western Region Development Ministry, intended flood control in the vicinity of the St. Sebastian South Canal by dredging the canal and protecting its banks using gabion walls and steel sheet pile walls, which prevent erosion of the banks.  
The St. Sebastian South Canal is one of the key storm water drainage canals in the Northern Colombo area that discharges the storm water in the Colombo basin into the Kelani River with an approximate length of 2.0 kilometres and a width of 15 metres.  Some stretches of the canal bank had been protected earlier either by gabion walls and sheet pile walls but the rest of the earthen bank has not been protected, resulting the canal sections with undefined cross sections difficult to maintain.  
The scope of the project completed included canal bank protection work of around 6000 m3 of gabion construction work, 90 metre-long sheet pilling work and reinstatement of the existing access road and storm water drains disturbed by the construction work.

 
The surrounding residents are immensely benefited by the project being completed with improved scenic beauty and the increased land value in the area.