Kokers being left open during the spring tide in order to irrigate drought-stricken farmlands on Leguan, in Region Three, resulted in dozens of homes on the island being flooded yesterday.
According to information gathered from residents living on the island, stop-log doors were removed, with the permission of the Neighborhood Democratic Council (NDC), from kokers at Amsterdam, Blenheim, Success, Thierens and Phoenix by farmers in those villages in order to give their farmlands much needed relief from the intense heat that has been plaguing the island recently.
However, after the doors were removed, the open kokers were left unsupervised. This resulted in homes across those villages named being flooded. However, homes located close to the kokers felt the brunt of the floodwaters, which came rushing in once the spring tide occurred late yesterday afternoon.
