The US$15M Hope Canal, or the Northern Relief Channel at the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC), which the National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) started in October 2010, would be the answer to flooding in the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary areas, according to Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon.
Dr Luncheon made this disclosure during a post-Cabinet briefing on Wednesday at the Office of the President as he was updating the media on the flood situation being experienced and he expressed government’s optimism over the project, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.
“The design of the Hope Canal is predicated in the one in a hundred years of level of rainfall to allow the discharge into
