About 15 house­holds in the Ce­dros dis­trict have been af­fect­ed by flood­ing, with wa­ter en­ter­ing homes in Bonasse, Fuller­ton, Lime­field Vil­lage and St Mary’s Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment.

Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Khadi­jah Ameen yes­ter­day di­rect­ed that im­me­di­ate as­sis­tance, in­clud­ing clean­ing sup­plies and sup­port with clean-up op­er­a­tions, be pro­vid­ed to af­fect­ed res­i­dents.

Ameen made the an­nounce­ment in a me­dia re­lease, as the Min­istry’s Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit mon­i­tored flood­ing fol­low­ing pe­ri­ods of heavy rain­fall and over­cast con­di­tions.

The af­fect­ed ar­eas in­clude Man­mo­han Singh Street and Ed­ward Street in Bonasse Vil­lage, Fuller­ton beach­front and Fuller­ton Vil­lage, Camp­bell Street in Lime­field Vil­lage, and St Mary’s Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment along Per­se­ver­ance Road.

Teams from the min­istry were on the ground con­duct­ing dam­age as­sess­ments.

Riv­er lev­els in the Ica­cos area were al­so be­ing mon­i­tored, with rivers re­port­ed at bank-full ca­pac­i­ty. Tidal con­di­tions were un­der close ob­ser­va­tion be­cause of the po­ten­tial im­pact on low-ly­ing ar­eas.

The min­istry al­so re­ceived one re­port of a pos­si­ble land­slide. An as­sess­ment found that the af­fect­ed house was not un­der im­me­di­ate threat and the mat­ter was pri­vate in na­ture.

The state­ment said the min­istry was work­ing with the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment and oth­er first re­spon­ders as the flood­ing sit­u­a­tion was be­ing mon­i­tored.

Res­i­dents in af­fect­ed ar­eas were urged to take pre­cau­tions, avoid flood­wa­ters and con­tact the Siparia Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit if as­sis­tance was need­ed. —APS