THE Regional Administration in Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam) has mobilised materials and equipment to seal another breach on the sea dam embankment at Cullen on the Essequibo Coast.
Regional Chairman, Mr. Alli Baksh, said a delegation of residents from the village visited his office Monday morning in connection with the flooding of their homes.
He said work will begin immediately to shore up the cracked area with earth so as to prevent further inundation in the area.
Baksh said he has received reports that a person caused the destruction by removing some of the soil.
A resident of Cullen, Yoshadra, who is a member of the Annandale/Riverstown Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) said water started to pour into yards as the tide rose in the Atlantic Ocean.
She said the drainage trench was quickly flooded and overflowed into livestock pens, kitchen gardens and houses.
According to the councillor, the lower flat of her two-storey concrete home, which has a business section, had about one foot of water.
Another housewife, Gunwattie known as ‘Rosie’ said her sheep and goats were trapped in water for several hours while another farmer complained that his pigs were also in the wet.
Residents who are rearing ducks and fowls also had to find dry grounds for them.
Recently, another massive breach at Cullen had threatened to destroy a housing area very close to the sand reef embankment, causing several residents to move to higher ground on the advice from Baksh.
The sea dam embankment from La Union to Suddie, which is about seven miles long, is also in a very vulnerable state.
Meanwhile, Government spent some $115M to construct a rip rap wall at Zorg, also on Essequibo Coast, to seal a major breach by constructing an embankment with tons of earth, after residents endured floods every high tide for at least two years.