DOHA: The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has held the designers of Dukhan Road accountable for the massive water-logging on the highway during rains that lashed the country on September 20.
Ashghal had appointed a special committee to investigate the issue.
The committee has found that the water-logging on the road, in the Shahania area, resulted from faulty designing, as no proper system to dispose of rain water was provided in the design, Al Sharq reported yesterday.
Ashghal has now asked the designers to correct the defects at their own expense.
Based on the findings, Ashghal has decided to review the designs of all future and ongoing road projects to ensure that they don’t have similar defects.
It will also set up a mechanism to closely scrutinise all road designs before they are approved to avoid such mistakes, said the daily.
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