I have been a victim of flooding for 20 years

Aug 03, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
For 20 years now, I have been the victim of continuous flooding to my transported house plot property located a short distance away from the northern side of the Riverstown Creek in Region Two.
The only remedy to solve the unbearable flooding is by way of revetment work which falls under the responsibility of the Ministry of Works to an 80-foot stretch of embankment which has disappeared to become a mud flat from persistent erosion.
During the flooding caused by the opening of the three-door flood relief at the backland conservancy, my plot will remain under cover for about one and a half to two feet, with a further aggravation to my predicament during spring tide and heavy rainfall.
All because of the ongoing flooding, it is not possible for me to rear livestock or even to grow any kind of vegetable crops which makes living conditions for me and my family much more difficult through no fault of my own.
The Ministry cannot be exonerated from the blame for my suffering and inconvenience to have a better life and living which can be solved once and for all by doing the revetment works, but it’s the negligence to do so that remains very much baffling.
I have seen in situations not as serious as mine, where such works was done to bring immediate relief and since it is the responsibility of the Ministry to do so, the hesitation to the execute the revetment works is indeed unacceptable much to my detriment.
Following repeated complaints made by me, the subject Minister, in company with the then regional Chairmen Ally Baksh, made an on the spot inspection and provided three trailer loads of mud to build up my plot, but it was just a waste of time as all washed away into the creek, from the flooding.
A team of technical officers from the region also visited the site with a well known contractor, where the assurance was given the unnecessary revetment works will be done, but all along, it remains only a promise still to be fulfilled.
What is urgently needed is for positive action to be taken to bring about a solution. And I do expect that this will be done with the earlier the better.
Rudolph James

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