With the flood-causing Maduni sluice to have been closed yesterday, residents of the Mahaica and Mahaicony creeks were happy that with two days of sun, the water level has dropped slightly although rice farmers have already lost their crops while others were battling to save theirs.
Not wanting their investment, time and hard work to go to waste, the farmers purchased a few drums of fuel and kept pumping since the water started rising more than two weeks ago. The residents have also lost produce from their cash crop farm.
They told Stabroek News yesterday that the water started to recede from Tuesday evening and that about two inches have
