SOME farmers along the Lower Pomeroon bank are deliberately throwing dry coconut husk in the waterway and contributing to the blockage of the river mouth.

Last Thursday, while a team, led by Vice-Chairman of Region 2 (Pomeroon/Supenaam), Mr. Vishnu Samaroo, was travelling in a boat to Wakapao, they observed that several workers, employed by large scale coconut planters, were peeling dried nuts near the river edge and discarding the shells which floated with the tide to the river mouth.
Coconut growers are also packing and storing large heaps of the husk on the river bank from where they are washed into the water during extreme high tides.
Scores of boat operators, who ply the waterway daily, complained that the floating husk poses great danger to them and innocent lives can be lost in the eventuality of any accident.
The husk is also causing the river mouth to become more silted up, resulting in slower discharge of water from the Pomeroon into the Atlantic Ocean.