Vigorous and continuous efforts by the contractor Pooran Manman to fix the breach on a main dam at Charity, Essequibo Coast has resulted in the receding of over eighteen inches of floodwater which had lodged on the land on Monday night.
When this newspaper visited the area at around 4 pm yesterday, the water on the land had receded, but was still high in the nearby trenches. The construction team was seen fetching mud and dumping it on the dam to repair the breach.
Regional Engineer Renick Marslow and his team made good on his promise and a diversion was created in the dam to allow the floodwaters to drain off from the land.
Betty Benn, a resident of the area said that the construction team worked throughout Monday night in an attempt to fix the breach.
