The spring tide has caused a resident living near the Boerasirie Creek, Region Three to be affected by flooding after the water gushed out from a section that was not fixed when sea defence work was carried out.
Construction foreman from the Sea Defence Department of the Ministry of Public Works (MoPW), Lalta Persaud told Stabroek News that the excavator was working there sometime ago but another resident prevented the operator from completing the job because of his “fruit trees” and they left.
“But now the fruit trees are not worth anything because they are all dying out,” Persaud said.
He said a machine has to go again to rectify the situation.
When this newspaper visited last evening, the resident was not around. It was observed that the water flowed forcefully from the creek, passed through the resident’s yard and into a nearby trench.
Meanwhile, the flooding also continued at the Parika Stelling yesterday afternoon and most of the commuters took advantage of the push cart service that transported them in and out as was the case on Saturday.
Persaud and a team of workers had placed the sandbags in front of the stelling and next to it to prevent the water from flooding the roadway and the nearby marketing centre, which used to be affected in the past.
They were waiting until the water receded at 6 pm to remove the sandbags.
Birchil Ifill, an elderly resident of the Essequibo Coast, had just crossed with the speedboat and was among a few commuters who chose to wade through the floodwaters.
He was frustrated that the MoPW had not placed some boards to allow them to walk across freely.
“If this is what happens every spring tide they should have been prepared for it,” Ifill lashed out. “Every time the spring tide comes commuters have to go through the same situation.”
He said the constant submerging of the stelling can cause it to be damaged further, even before plans to make it a state-of-the-art stelling can be executed.
