Georgetown: Although acting City Engineer, Lloyd Allen said the Georgetown Mayor and City Council’s Engineering Department has compiled a comprehensive programme to prevent flooding in Georgetown during the ongoing rainy season, there is clear evidence today that the rainy season commenced with floods around the city as the Civil Defence Commission has been put on alert to deal with Georgetown in particular.
Allen, however noted that the programme has been designed to arrest the drainage problem in the town from April to September, and the department is going to switch into gear.
City Mayor Hamilton Green said the programme has been designed within the confines of the cash-strapped city. He contended that the municipality does not have sufficient funds to effectively address the drainage problem which often results in flooding in Georgetown.
“We don’t have the financial and other resources to really do what we do. We hope with the restoration of Georgetown, we can do what will completely control what we call flooding in this country… ““Independence Boulevard, Merriman’s Mall and other canals acted as reservoirs particularly during rainfall but these have been filled following the colonial ages where the Dutch designed this city bearing in mind that we are below sea level, this compromised the welfare of the city during heavy rainfall.”
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