With all due respect, the flooding issue is not two years old.  What has the PPP done in 23 years to address and take measures to improve the water management and irrigation? 

The low lying areas need a series of inter-connecting canals, dams and pumping stations at the proper nodes.  Bear in mind, much of the flooding comes from rain run-off from the higher back lands, not from the Atlantic.

The PNC were blaming the PPP for all the floods in Guyana.  Now it's their turn to correct the problem.  And they don't have a clue what to do.

Bibi Haniffa posted:

The PNC were blaming the PPP for all the floods in Guyana.  Now it's their turn to correct the problem.  And they don't have a clue what to do.

Community service from their supporters to clean the drains and start bailing.

Oh no.  That's what BK got paid to do. Remember!

Bibi Haniffa posted:

Oh no.  That's what BK got paid to do. Remember!

BK got paid to be paid handsomely for doing nothing. He was repaid his PNC campaign contribution.

If this had happened in Linden,hundreds of millions would have been pouring in.

ba$eman posted:

With all due respect, the flooding issue is not two years old.  What has the PPP done in 23 years to address and take measures to improve the water management and irrigation? 

The low lying areas need a series of inter-connecting canals, dams and pumping stations at the proper nodes.  Bear in mind, much of the flooding comes from rain run-off from the higher back lands, not from the Atlantic.

Bai like yuh want give djangy a hand with the slop can or what?  You have short memory, they jump up the other day and claimed that the PNC solve the flood problem in short time. Even PNC mouthpiece Kaiteur was bragging about how quick quick flood water dissipate. 

Drugb posted:

ba$eman posted:

With all due respect, the flooding issue is not two years old.  What has the PPP done in 23 years to address and take measures to improve the water management and irrigation? 

The low lying areas need a series of inter-connecting canals, dams and pumping stations at the proper nodes.  Bear in mind, much of the flooding comes from rain run-off from the higher back lands, not from the Atlantic.

Bai like yuh want give djangy a hand with the slop can or what?  You have short memory, they jump up the other day and claimed that the PNC solve the flood problem in short time. Even PNC mouthpiece Kaiteur was bragging about how quick quick flood water dissipate. 

I agree that the PNC were jumping up and down about the floods.  The PNC are jokers to think they solve it by clearing drains.  These floods overwhelm any drainage if there are no pumps etc to dispose of the water.

However, successive Govts have dropped the ball on this.  Flooding has become an annual event linked to rains in the back lands.  My criticism is in the interest of the people and farmers who have been suffering the most.  I don't want to politicize the issue as there is more than enough blame to go round and many suffer.

Flood control should be a developmental priority for any GoG.  My criticism of all past Govts, including the PPP does not mean I support the PNC or provide cover.

ba$eman posted:

I agree that the PNC were jumping up and down about the floods.  The PNC are jokers to think they solve it by clearing drains.  These floods overwhelm any drainage if there are no pumps etc to dispose of the water.

However, successive Govts have dropped the ball on this.  Flooding has become an annual event linked to rains in the back lands.  My criticism is in the interest of the people and farmers who have been suffering the most.  I don't want to politicize the issue as there is more than enough blame to go round and many suffer.

Flood control should be a developmental priority for any GoG.  My criticism of all past Govts, including the PPP does not mean I support the PNC or provide cover.

Either way you are giving them an out. During PPP time you believe Mitwah, Jalil and the rest of the PNC supporters would ever mention this? They fully blamed the PPP for acts of God, even the 100 year flood back in 2005. 

The jackasses in power even abandoned their supporters in Buxton. 

-residents cite negligence of koker attendant

WHILE the rains have eased over coastal Guyana in recent days, the East Coast Demarara community of Buxton was inundated on Saturday and residents have laid blame on the lax operation of a koker at the Crown Dam aback the community.

While water has drained off from surrounding communities, the unique basin-like situation in which Buxton is positioned has resulted in water accumulating in the area over the past week. This publication visited Buxton on Saturday and residents reported that their yards have been flooded over the past several days; most of the flooded yards were located south of the Railway Line Embankment along Company Road, Middle Walk and Clyde Roopchand Road.

Along Company Road, persons were mopping their homes while others washed carpets and sofas at the higher parts of their yards. A man drained water from a hose connected to the water network into a five-gallon container, while a woman and her daughter pointed to the high level of the water in their yard.
Most persons reported that the water was receding slowly on Saturday. A resident reported that twice since the week leading up to Christmas, the area was flooded out, noting that last week the waters seemed unusually high.

“Rain didn’t really falling so much, but this water coming down from the sideline dam,” he said. The man noted that the water in the area is drained –off by several pumps at the seawall area at Buxton/Friendship, another outlet at the village at Strathspey and also at Lusignan. It was noted that depending on the tide, the kokers at those locations can be opened only at certain times.

According to residents, on Old Year’s Night many yards were flooded and the water receded slowly the following morning. However, as the days progressed, the rains persisted and the level rose and accumulated in several yards. Buxton residents expected the waters would have receded by Saturday.

 

Over at the Buxton Sideline Dam, a koker which was expected to drain water out of the area was itself covered by water as a family nearby washed their clothing at a high spot in the yard.

According to a cane-cutter nearby, the area is usually plagued by flooding after water accumulates in the highlands aback the community and would usually flood the area. However, he said that the accumulation appeared strange.

“Is only last night we told them [the authorities] and somebody said only then they realise the door at the Crown Dam was open all the time,” he said. He explained that the water which accumulates near the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) would flow down to the lower grounds at Buxton, but the flow of water is usually controlled by a koker at the Crown Dam.

Reports are that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuco) once controlled the koker at the Crown Dam; however, it is now under the control of the regional authorities and a ranger overlooks its operation. Residents were told that the ranger who is responsible for manning the koker was negligent in his duties.

“They need to change that person,” a Middle Walk resident said. According to the man, the situation is difficult to cope with, noting that many persons have had no choice but to walk through the knee-high waters.

When this publication visited the seawall area at Buxton/Friendship, the engines of three pumps were running and draining water out of canals into a reservoir. The dam at the periphery of the reservoir was being

raised by an excavator as persons there feared the water level would have risen beyond the sides of the water containment area.

“They need to study this area over,” a vendor at Company Road told this publication.

The Weather Watch Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture last week predicted continuous rain for several days as an upper- level trough and the sub-tropical jet affect Guyana.

Weather conditions were likely to deteriorate as the jet entrance migrates over Guyana from time to time. A special bulletin from the ministry noted that as the Hydrometeorological Service has been forecasting for several days after Christmas Day, all regions were likely to experience cloudy to overcast skies.