The homes of many persons remained inundated with stagnant floodwater yesterday along the East Coast of Demerara, especially at Buxton, where livestock farmers appealed for relief to save their animals and long-term solutions to their increasingly familiar plight.
Most of the persons residing in the villages south of the Railway Embankment were still grappling with waterlogged yards and homes as water, from which a stench has started to emanate, continued to slowly recede from the land.
The National Emergency Opera-tions Centre (NEOC) yesterday said a drainage assessment team which was dispatched to Buxton and surrounding villages yesterday afternoon reported that waters are receding but at a slow rate.
Fears of contamination were also stoked by the dirty water and numerous submerged pipelines and pit latrines. Many of the canals and drains were filled to capacity in some areas as there was still an overflow from the drains. Livestock and cash crop farmers were also left to deal with dead animals and rotting plants as there was nothing they could do to prevent the loss.
But although many villages have seen a slow decline in the water since the downpour that started the flooding last Wednesday, Buxton remains inundated and the canal along the Sideline Dam was yesterday overflowing, covering the
