Up to yesterday afternoon, repairs to a section of the Boerasirie Conservancy dam that slipped had not yet started and residents said that they had alerted the ranger to the cracks several days ago but he cursed them.
After developing a major crack, a section of the dam at Canal Number Two slipped a few days ago, residents told this newspaper during a visit to the area yesterday afternoon. The fragile area is about 200 rods. One man said that he had alerted the ranger to the large crack that appeared prior to the dam breaking. “When this thing start, abeh stop the ranger (but) da man cuss up abeh,” the resident said.
The slippage occurred since