KAY-MARIE FLETCH­ER

Se­nior Re­porter

kay-marie.fletch­er@guardian.co.tt

Of­fi­cials at the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion say they have found the per­son re­spon­si­ble for dump­ing mounds of garbage which blocked a ravine, lead­ing to flood­ing along a por­tion of the Churchill-Roo­sevelt High­way on Tues­day.

Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Josi­ah Austin yes­ter­day said yes­ter­day that heavy dump­ing of garbage had blocked the un­der­ground drain cylin­der, which caused the east­bound part of the high­way in the Curepe/Pasea area near the Co­ca-Co­la com­pound to flood fol­low­ing rains.

Giv­ing an up­date to Guardian Me­dia fol­low­ing the han­dover cer­e­mo­ny of sport­ing equip­ment do­nat­ed by Chang­sha City, Chi­na, Austin said, “We’ve not just been clean­ing, but we’ve found the source. There’s one per­son that’s been heav­i­ly dump­ing there. But, al­so, it’s a com­mu­ni­ty thing, so we’re al­so deal­ing with the source of that. We had a lot of de­bris apart from the log that stuck there, we had a lot of de­bris added to that.”

Austin said the cor­po­ra­tion’s lit­ter war­dens will be pa­trolling and are au­tho­rised to treat with peo­ple found lit­ter­ing.

“In our pub­lic health unit, we have our lit­ter war­dens, and they can go in and treat with the sit­u­a­tion, and we will be deal­ing with the per­pe­tra­tors ac­cord­ing­ly. We are not tak­ing that light­ly. Al­so, we have some cam­era sys­tems that we are go­ing to roll out not just for the pur­pose of se­cu­ri­ty, but al­so for lit­ter pre­ven­tion and to treat with those dump sites,” the chair­man ex­plained.

On Tues­day, apart from a sec­tion of the east­bound lane of the CRH be­ing flood­ed, mi­nor roads in near­by ar­eas were in­un­dat­ed with mud, slush and de­bris.