Funds, amounting to some $460 million, have been approved by the Ministry of Finance for use on emergency works to secure vulnerable areas within a 3-kilometre stretch of shoreline between Fairfield and Dantzig, Mahaicony, according to Chief Sea and River Defence Officer Kevin Samad.
Samad has also told Stabroek News that additional resources have been mobilised by contractor A&S General Contractors Inc., which is undertaking works at vulnerable areas of the coast after repaired sea defences were breached again by high tides over the weekend.
Over the course of last Friday and Saturday, spring tides washed away a large section of the recently repaired Prospect, Mahaicony sea defences. An estimated 400 metres were destroyed, leaving acres of farmlands under threat from possible flooding.