En­gi­neers from the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion (CBC) are de­vel­op­ing a com­pre­hen­sive plan to al­le­vi­ate flood­ing in Good­will Trace and By­noe Trace, En­ter­prise, two of the ar­eas worst af­fect­ed by last week’s del­uge af­ter heavy rain­fall.

May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed em­pha­sised that ex­ces­sive vol­umes of wa­ter are be­ing chan­nelled in­to the area: “We are now look­ing at ways to di­vert that wa­ter out in­to oth­er chan­nels to re­duce the im­pact.”

Re­flect­ing on the broad­er sit­u­a­tion, Mo­hammed not­ed that flood­ing across the bor­ough ap­pears to be eas­ing. “We have suf­fered from tremen­dous flood­ing in re­cent years. I re­mem­ber in 2023 when the Durham Vil­lage Hin­du School was flood­ed and stu­dents had to be res­cued. We have since cleared sev­er­al wa­ter­cours­es, and more are be­ing cleared.”

De­spite this progress, re­sources re­main es­sen­tial: “We can’t es­cape from flood­ing be­cause of sev­er­al fac­tors, in­clud­ing the hu­man fac­tor of il­le­gal dump­ing in­to wa­ter­cours­es. We must change this at­ti­tude and re-ex­am­ine how we as in­di­vid­u­als deal with house­hold garbage.”

The CBC has al­ready cleared wa­ter­cours­es at Ak­bar Trace, Sumaria Trace, and Bon Aven­ture, Cunu­pia. “We look for­ward to work­ing with the Min­istry of Works, which would pro­vide the heavy equip­ment need­ed to de­silt oth­er ar­eas,” Mo­hammed added.