Residents of the Mahaica and Mahaicony creeks are expected to have relief from flooding during the rainy season as the Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary/Agricultural-Develop-ment-Authority (MMA/ ADA) has taken steps to drain the water from the “back to the front”.
General Manager of MMA Aubrey Charles told Stabroek News that the Perth/Biaboo canal has been rehabilitated and linked to the primary drainage channel between Cottage and Zeeland. He said this would allow the water to flow into the Bellamy drain, which would in turn be discharged into the Atlantic. He pointed out that the objective is to reduce the flooding in the Mahaica and Mahaicony creeks.
According to him, eight primary drains leading to the Bellamy canal between Mahaica and Mahaicony Rivers have been cleared.
Maintenance works are also currently being undertaken “at the land south of the irrigation canal in the upper reaches of Mahaica and Mahaicony River going up to Biaboo/Wash Clothes,” he added. MMA has also rehabilitated the Industry canal that lies south of the public road.
Charles also told this newspaper that the monthly maintenance programme involving the manual cleaning of the drains and canals is continuing.
The secondary drains are also being rehabilitated and the work is 70% completed.
He said the focus of the rehabilitation is on the drains and the canals south of the main irrigation canal and the Abary River where there were problems that caused flooding. Charles said the work is being done satisfactorily and he expects that the drainage would be enhanced during the rainy season, as there are no impediments.
Charles is appealing to the various Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC) to ensure that the residential drains are cleaned so that residents can benefit. He pointed out that flooding would not be eliminated but would be minimized, especially if rainfall is more than what MMA has the capacity to drain.
Regional Development Officer of Region Five (Mahaica/Berbice), Govind Singh, told this newspaper that the region has already executed all the drainage and irrigation (D&I) projects within the ten NDCs.
He said that the D&I workers have also been conducting their maintenance work by clearing the internal drains.
He hopes that with all the preparations that have been made for the rainy season, residents would not suffer flooding this year. He appealed to residents “not to throw plastic bottles and food boxes in the drains as this can cause unnecessary clogging and they would end up being affected.”
Link up the canals, and install irrigation pumps = less or no floodings, so keep on planting, bumper crops/harvest, Go Mahaicony Go!
This is voodo engineering. The MMA should try to clear the Abary River which is silted. This is literally impossible to do.
The people in the Mahaicony will continue to suffer from flooding due to poor operation and maintenance of the Scheme.
….. if as u call it voodoo engineering ,, then those who doing the engineering must be voodoo engineers ,, somehow ,, i have an inkling that u may be unto some thing here ,, since for the longest while i have been trying to get these ,, who lead (?) to come to grips with the reality that ,, the Amazon and the rain forest
of which GY is an integral part ,, is not goin to disappear so that the economic stability can be secured ,, and there is no telling precisely just how much rain is expected ,, added to the ammount of melting that will take place during the summer months of the Andes ,, which is now ,, thus increasing the head waters ,, from the Amazon ,, added with the rainforest drainage ,, that holds the largest watershed on the planet ,, 2,722,000square miles ,, all the rivers in Gy are sub – tributaries of the Amazon ,, and combined with our own silting problems ,, from our mining activities ,, logging ,, etc,,, we r mindlessly adding to what is considered natural ,, if this is to be the foundation for our economic transportation to the 21 st,, century ,, then sadly ,, i have to say ,, that this is a myopic ,, plan ,, that is visionless ,, and mediocre in conception ,, that if not corrected ,,, modified and turned around ,, will result in an unspeakable tragedy ,,
that will make jonestown pale in comparison ,, not in the same circumstances but in more ways than one,, similiar ,,
it is not of consequence the ammount of rain that would be evident on the coast ,, but that which is coming from the Amazon ,, the Rio negro the largest tributary of the Amazon ,, the Rio Branco ,, is a sub – tributary of the Negro ,, — so named for the blackest water found on the planet — and is the major source for the Essequibo and and many other rivers in GY ,,
GY is affected on two fronts ,, from the Amazon ,, all the mouths of every river and creek that empties into a major river that subsequently empties in the Atlantic ,, is silted up from the more than 3 million tons of silt ,, deposited at the mouth of the Amazon each day ,, added to this ,, the river themselves is dying ,, from the erosion ,, from all forms of economic activity ,, this silt finds it self at the mouth of the rivers that flow to the Atlantic ,, added to this pic the silt being lodged at the edge of a shallow saucer which is the topography of the coast that is the shores to the ATLANTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
guyana is as they say aland of MANY waters but it does not ment to hurt people. come on get the ones with the the pratical knowledge to do the work not the one with the piece of paper,