The Guyana Flood Website

 Report for January 16th 2006. 1 year anniversary

Today January 16th 2006 marks the 1 year anniversary since Guyana experienced her worst man made disaster some 12 months ago. Even though the National Drainage and Irrigation Boards claims to have spent some 1.4 billion dollars to improve the drainage system on the east coast, there are still hundreds of drains and canals that are still clogged up, leading us to believe that we just might not have gotten worth for the kind of money spent.

The pictures don't lie, they show the state of neglect that so many of the canals on the east coast are presently in, the photos on this page are proof of that. You decide if the authorities are really working hard enough to prevent a reoccurrence of last year's flooding.

Conservancy issue: The Guyana National Drainage and Irrigation Board has opened the sluices at Maduri on the Mahaica river because of the seriously high water level in the East Coast water conservancy. If they don't release this water, the east coast water conservancy dam will surely break and that will result in serious flooding on the East Coast of Demerara. The ND&IB has also been blowing water at the Land of Canaan 5 doors sluice but the water in the east coast conservancy continues to raise dangerously high.

 The lower parts of the Mahaicony area has been flooded for the last 5 weeks, now with the east coast conservancy water being released into the nearby Mahaica river, it means that this already flooded farming community will be in even deeper woes.

The following photos shows the miserable state of much of the canals on the lower east coast and parts of Georgetown.

Photo taken on the Turkeyen bridge looking north	Photo taken on the Turkeyen bridge looking south	Photo taken on the Turkeyen bridge looking south	Looking into the Turkeyen area, canal clogged up	This is a main drainage canal that runs along side the CARICOM complex.
This is a main drainage canal that runs along side the CARICOM complex.	A closer look at the canal that runs alongside the CARICOM Complex	This water lead to the Lilliendaal pump, as you can see there is some kind of a blockage at this point	A closer look at the apparent blockage	On the embankment highway looking north into Sophia/Belair. They dug part of the canal further up but left this side clogged.
The clogged canal that runs alongside the embankment highway in the Belair/Pattenson area	.This is looking west at the junction of the embankment highway and the entrance to Belair village	The 40 foot canal still clogged up with weed, grass and everything else.	This is located by the gas station at Belair on the east coast	This canal runs alongside the Texaco service station at Belair on the east coast
This is just after the service station located at Belair,ECD.	A tractor was cutting the grass alongside the east coast highway just before we took this shot. The canal was left neglected.	Taken from the famous "Conversation Tree" area.	Someone cleared the piece at the side of their  lot, the rest is taken over with grass and weed.	At the junction of Sheriff St and the East Coast higway.
First St Subryanville and Sheriff St.	Feverously pumping water to save face.	This is the canal in the vicinity of the Army base at Ayangana.	Road and blocked canal alongside the National Park
	Looking into National Park, clogged canal		This was taken standing on the Queens Collage bridge. Looking North	This was taken standing on the Queens Collage bridge. Looking South
Light and Regent street, clogged drain equals  flooding	A blocked overgrown alleyway on Light St,  just off of Regent St	The other side of the alleyway	Blocked alley, flooded yard.	They were digging the Lama canal and building up the dam, it was raining just before I took this shot.
The Hymac in action on the Lama canal. We are not sure what this exercise is expected to achieve.	This photo shows the section of the Lama canal dam where residents have fenced in a section of the reserve. Residents are saying that they got permission from the City Council to do so.	The fence with the barbed wire belongs to businessman Peter Ramsaroop. The city council is saying that it is blocking the path of the excavator and wants to break it down.	This tree is next to the canal and would have blocked the way of the excavator.	Just beyond Ramsaroop's lot is another fence, this one belongs to the deputy British High Commissioner. The city council does not have a problem with this fence.