– Relevant authorities need to urgently clear main drainage canal in Campbellville

MY name is John Ramotar and I have been a resident of Lot 1 William Street, Campbellville, for the past 30 years. During my tenure there I have always, at great personal expense, upkept, and still upkeep my neighbourhood.I weed and maintain the parapets, trenches and paint all culverts, road signs at John Street and Middleton Street, John Street & Delph Avenue, William Street and Middleton Street, William Street & Delph Avenue, Middleton Street & Duncan Street and Duncan Street & Delph Avenue, weed the parapet on Middleton Street from Duncan Street to John Street, all in Campbellville. I also constantly maintain the wooden foot/bicycle bridge (the western continuation of William Street) linking Middleton Street to Campbell Street. All of this I personally consider as my civic duty to my community/country.
My grave concern and of those residents who live in the Kitty/Campbellville, Bel Air Park area is the abominable condition of the main drainage canal between Middleton Street and Campbell Street which extends from Duncan Street northwards to the 40 ft Lamaha canal. This vitally important canal has not been cleared nor desilted since time immemorial by the authorities responsible for its maintenance, despite numerous pleadings by the scores of affected residents. Needless to say, this area is a haven for illegal garbage dumping.
I/we do not have the capacity nor wherewithal to clear and maintain this overgrown, infested (snakes, mosquito, alligators) silted up canal and re-construction of the aforementioned bridge.
On the 27th November 2013, within one hour my bottom flat and yard being both inundated with six inches of water resulting in very costly damage to equipment, furniture and personal possessions.
I wish to point out that the flooding situation remains the same as recently as 14th January 2014, thus prompting me to pen this letter to your good self and to enlighten whoever is/are the authority/authorities as to the existing dire situation in this part of “the woods”.
I am imploring the powers that be to urgently correct and administer the above-mentioned situation before a further and larger catastrophe occurs that will adversely affect countless residents and their properties and possessions.
As a point of interest, my insurance company has informed me that they will not compensate for flood damage, since when I was insured the present situation had not existed, since it is as a result of negligence by the authorities.
Please find attached four labelled photographs depicting the present disgraceful state of the afore-described environment. I would like to encourage and thank anyone who reiterates and support this petition.
I look forward to your urgent publication of my letter so that this persistent problem can be speedily alleviated.

JOHN G. RAMOTAR
Lot 1 William Street,
Campbellville, Georgetown