NDIA cleaning drains to ease flooding on West Bank

A flooded yard in Pouderoyen

The Ministry of Agriculture’s National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) yesterday began cleaning the clogged trenches at Versailles in an effort to bring relief to persons flooded at Pouderoyen and Malgre Tout, on the West Bank of Demerara.

“The NDIA will [be] bringing some excavators to clean the trenches at Ver-sailles, etcetera, to [address] the problem… The NDC will also be clearing the internal drains to assist in getting off the water to the river,” Region Three Chairman Julius Faerber told Stabroek News yesterday.

The villagers’ plight was highlighted in yesterday’s edition