The Trinidad and To­ba­go Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) will soon ad­dress land­slide is­sues af­fect­ing the River­side South Corinth De­vel­op­ment.

In re­sponse to res­i­dents’ com­plaints, the HDC said the land­slides oc­curred af­ter heavy rain­fall.

In a press re­lease, the cor­po­ra­tion con­firmed that res­i­dents lodged com­plaints about the prob­lem on Sep­tem­ber 17.

“The mat­ter was im­me­di­ate­ly re­port­ed by the HDC to its sub­sidiary, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion Fa­cil­i­ties Es­tate Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (FEM­CoL), which worked in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the River­side South Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny to ad­dress such in­ci­dents.”

Ac­cord­ing to the HDC, en­gi­neers from FEM­CoL, ac­com­pa­nied by res­i­dents, con­duct­ed an on-site in­spec­tion on Sep­tem­ber 18 to as­sess the dam­age and ex­plore pos­si­ble so­lu­tions.

The cor­po­ra­tion added that the tech­ni­cal team has since fi­nalised its as­sess­ment re­port, doc­u­ment­ing rec­om­mend­ed en­gi­neer­ing so­lu­tions, which were sub­mit­ted on Sep­tem­ber 22 for “ac­tion­ing.”

HDC as­sured res­i­dents, “The Cor­po­ra­tion re­mains com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing the safe­ty and sta­bil­i­ty of the af­fect­ed ar­eas and to work­ing close­ly with the River­side South Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny and its res­i­dents.”

The cor­po­ra­tion al­so promised to keep the pub­lic up­dat­ed as the works progress to­ward im­ple­men­ta­tion.

Res­i­dents ex­pressed frus­tra­tion over in­fra­struc­tur­al and sew­er prob­lems since mov­ing in­to the de­vel­op­ment be­tween 2022 and 2023.

They said the HDC failed to con­struct a re­tain­ing wall along the river­bank, which led to ero­sion at the back of sev­er­al homes. One fam­i­ly was re­lo­cat­ed af­ter their town­house be­gan slip­ping in­to the riv­er, while an­oth­er re­cent­ly moved out af­ter a land­slide de­stroyed a sec­tion of road­way in front of their home.

Res­i­dents al­so com­plained about the poor con­di­tion of the roads and re­cur­ring sew­er prob­lems.