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Flooding threatens E’bo farmers

Apr 19, 2016 News

While no severe damage has been attributed to sporadic flooding on varying parts of the Essequibo Coast due to hours of intense rainfall overnight, residents, especially those living in Queenstown Housing Scheme on the Essequibo Coast have complained of being affected.
One such resident is Joyce Grant, a poultry farmer. Grant said that the situation developed years ago under the previous government when advice was given to residents to block a particular drain in the scheme.
This, Grant argues, allowed for flooding every time it rains. “It just has to rain and we are affected by threatening water”.
Grant said, what is needed is for the drainage structures in the scheme to be properly restructured to facilitate the efficient flow of water off the land.
The pensioner, whose backyard has been inundated, said that she is desperate for it. Grant said that last year when the floods came she lost a number of poultry. She said she recently purchased a lot of chickens and as such, had to extend her pen size. “All of my duck eggs start to get water.”
Last year on several occasions, residents in Queenstown experienced flash flooding due to poor drainage structure and clogged up trenches in that area.
Grant has since forwarded a complaint about the situation to the Regional Executive Officer. He however was not in office to take the official complaint.
(Yannason Duncan)

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