Christopher Lynch, Gleaner Writer
RESIDENTS OF Harmons, Green Pond, Trinity, Hampton Road and Redberry in the Porus district are now being affected by an overflow of water from the underground aquifers in Manchester.
At least two homes and two shops in the Harmons community were completely covered and over a dozen homes surrounded by water.
Five persons in the Redberry and Trinity Districts of Porus have been relocated by authorities in Manchester. Councillor for the Porus Division, Mr. Pheneas Campbell has expressed empathy with those who are being affected. He, along with the Member of Parliament for the area, Dean Peart, representatives from the National Works Agency, the Ministry of Social Security, and the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) have visited the areas affected in order to assess the damage and to provide assistance to residents.
WORRIED ABOUT RAINFALL
The National Works Agency has closed a section of the Mile Gully to Oxford Main Road in Manchester with immediate effect, because the rising underground water has flooded sections of the main road.
Residents in the affected areas are still worried because of the threat of possible rainfall associated with a tropical depression in the Caribbean, and they are demanding greater assistance from the authorities to address the problems.
