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Residents seek help from Region 10 Chairman

Jun 29, 2013 News

 

 

Residents of #47 village on the Linden Lethem Highway, 47 miles from Linden, say that they are now waiting on the Region Ten Democratic Council to take action to ensure they can get a good quality source of potable water in the village.
A spokesperson for the group said, that members of the community raised the problem with a team from the RDC led by Regional Chairman Sharma Solomon last week.
The meeting was held at the Primary School in Number 47 Village. The team from the RDC travelled to the village from Linden.
The residents said that Mr. Solomon had promised to raise their plight with Guyana Water Inc. as a matter of urgency and they were now looking forward to some sort of positive development on the issue.
The community of about 200 is mainly loggers and their families and some gold miners who had settled in the area some twenty odd years ago.
Mr. Myrtland Simmonds, another resident, disclosed that the GWI had sunk two wells in the village some five years ago but both wells had collapsed. The village is located on the watershed between the Demerara and Essequibo Rivers. Residents have since those days been forced to use water from a nearby creek or to travel further afield to the Demerara River to obtain potable water.
Apart from the hardship endured in this, members of the community are continuously and sometimes uncomfortably suspicious that, the ground water they are using may be contaminated either by dead animals or other sources of pollution.
The assurance that the matter of a good quality source of water supply in the form of an artesian well, will be dealt with, was given by Solomon during an RDC outreach to the village last Friday.

 

 

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