Rain adding to Mahaicony flood misery

Heavy rainfall continues to slow the draining of floodwater from the Mahaicony Creek as the MMA-ADA has exhausted all of its options in assisting with the situation.

“Me just come out of the back dam and I had to tek a bucket and throw mud on the dams and tie it because they starting to run over and the road even worse cause you can’t get tractor in the rice field,” Chabinauth Deolall from Gordon Table, Mahaicony Creek  told Stabroek News yesterday, pointing out that because of the heavy rainfall the floodwater had not receded much.

Shanny (only name given) from Pine Ground, Mahaicony Creek, who had almost a foot of water in her yard and three times more on the land, explained to Stabroek News that the water had  gone down slightly on Saturday but because of the