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Collaboration among the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), the Region Six council (RDC) and the New Amsterdam Mayor and Town Council has resulted in the township not experiencing any major flooding this rainy season – a first in decades.
With two operating pumps and the maintenance of major drainage works, Mayor of New Amsterdam, Wainwright McIntosh in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Stabroek stated, “We are in the rainy season, I am happy to share that the town of New Amsterdam to date did not have any major flooding.”
According to the Mayor, from last August to the present they embarked on “many drainage projects that would have cost us almost a million dollars to rent machinery and all of that.”