The release of water from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC) into the Hope Canal on the East Coast continued yesterday and was going smoothly, Head of the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), Lionel Wordsworth said.
Up to last evening the eight-door sluice was open and water was discharging into the Atlantic Ocean. Wordsworth told Stabroek News that unlike Saturday, the eight-door sluice would remain open until 10pm to discharge water. Water levels in the Hope Canal were at 56.5 GD (Georgetown Datum – a unit of measurement). “It’s going smoothly as we planned it so far,” the NDIA head said.
He disclosed that yesterday, all three doors of the head regulator were opened and water was entering the channel rapidly. He said that the testing would continue as they work to bring down water levels in the EDWC to 58 GD and below. “We would want it to