I think scubaman is rising some valid points.

Also Jadira Veen of SXM Pride stated to me that she would be in favor of this "only if there is a mechanism in place to block land based litter from entering the pipe that will flow the water into the ocean. We all know by now that litter like cups, bottles and plastic items are washed down into our ponds. When the flood gates open that litter ends up at sea."

this has to be thought out carefully. It's a bad system now and a solution that does not take these safeguards into consideration only makes a bad situation worse.