QUICK intervention by the Ministry of Agriculture on Sunday has resulted in a rapid receding of waters in flood-affected communities in the Upper Corentyne.

Currently, four excavators are cleaning the drains and canals within the communities of the Number 52/74 Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC), which is the largest NDC district in the country.

Region Six Chairman, David Armogan, told Guyana Chronicle that based on the rate at which the water has receded thus far, he is optimistic that by Wednesday, the floods are expected to recede completely.

He continued that the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) staff was in the communities distributing cleaning supplies to the affected residents while technical personnel from the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) conducted assessment on the damage suffered by
poultry and livestock farmers.

Staffers from the Ministry of Health are also expected to visit the flooded-affected residents today.

Heavy rainfall in the early hours of Saturday morning coupled with blocked drains caused knee-high accumulation of water in some villages, resulting in millions of dollars in losses to a poultry farmer at Number 57 villages.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, along with a high-level delegation, including Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall; Chief Executive Officer, National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), Fredrick Flatts, and other senior officials of the NDIA; Deputy CEO, Guyana Livestock Development Authority, Dr. Dwight Walrond; Region Six Chairman, David Armogan and other regionalofficials visited the flood-affected communities of Number 53/Union, Number 57 and
Number 58 villages in East Berbice-Corentyne last Sunday to assess the damage caused by the floods and to take corrective action.