With communities on the Pomeroon River, Essequibo, now more prone to flooding, the regional administration has undertaken a massive empoldering and revetment project in a bid to prevent farms from being inundated and at the same time working to reduce pollution of the waterway, Regional Chairman Vilma Da Silva says.
Empoldering measures are being undertaken in communities in both the lower and upper Pomeroon with excavators deployed to create block drainage, heighten river embankments and secure revetments.
