May­or of Ch­agua­nas, His Wor­ship Coun­cil­lor Faaiq Mo­hammed, says the re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions need more re­sources to be able to deal with the ex­ten­sive flood­ing be­ing ex­pe­ri­enced dur­ing this year’s rainy sea­son.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew show, the Ch­agua­nas May­or said the lack of re­sources is a crit­i­cal fac­tor in­flu­enc­ing the ex­tent of flood­ing with­in the bor­ough.

May­or Mo­hammed was re­fer­ring specif­i­cal­ly to the sit­u­a­tion in the Jern­ing­ham and Long­denville dis­tricts.

“With our re­sources be­ing lim­it­ed, we try our best to tack­le these ar­eas,” the may­or said.  “We give pri­or­i­ty to how we clear our wa­ter cours­es at this point in time.”

“We had a se­ri­ous down­fall with this rain,” he ad­mit­ted.  “It was some­thing that we ex­pect­ed, but not at that lev­el of rain.  It caught us all—the whole coun­try, I think—off-guard.”

May­or Mo­hammed be­lieves more gov­ern­ment in­ter­ven­tion is need­ed in or­der to ef­fec­tive­ly han­dle the sit­u­a­tion.

“A big­ger con­ver­sa­tion needs to hap­pen be­cause year af­ter year, peo­ple are con­stant­ly in this sit­u­a­tion,” he said.

“We need to find so­lu­tions—not blame the per­sons that are in it [these sit­u­a­tions]—but find so­lu­tions to help them get out of it,” the may­or ar­gued.

May­or Mo­hammed con­firmed that the bor­ough’s Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit will be at­tend­ing to all the burgess­es that were af­fect­ed by the heavy rain­fall and flood­ing which oc­curred over the week­end.