As wide­spread tor­ren­tial rain­fall bat­tered the coun­try this week­end, res­i­dents of Rio Claro com­plained of se­ri­ous loss­es.

One res­i­dent Nar­isha Mo­hammed said she lost sev­er­al items in flood wa­ters. Mo­hammed re­called that around 6 am yes­ter­day, there was an es­ti­mat­ed two feet of wa­ter un­der her home at Poole Val­ley Trace, Guayagua­yare Road. She said it was the high­est lev­el of flood­wa­ters she has seen in quite some time.

Mo­hammes said she lost a fridge, wash­ing ma­chine, wa­ter pump and oth­er items.

“I am present­ly ask­ing and plead­ing with the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ty to please step up your game and do what is nec­es­sary so we would not have this prob­lem again.” 

While she thanked coun­cil­lor David Law for his as­sis­tance,  she re­called that on pre­vi­ous oc­ca­sions she had re­quest­ed that the riv­er be cleaned. “In the past, I have made nu­mer­ous re­ports to ODPM. I went in on many oc­ca­sions and talked about the de­bris that was in the riv­er and the thick­ness of the grass and the mat­tress that is in the riv­er to be cleaned to pre­vent this flood, and at this time, I am tired of it. I have a lot of loss­es this morn­ing.”

Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Ray­mond Co­zi­er said there were nu­mer­ous re­ports of flood­ing in var­i­ous ar­eas of Rio Claro in­clud­ing Buck­et Cor­ner, Poole Val­ley, Guayagua­yare Road, Cra­paud Flat and Ram­paul Trace. Co­zi­er, along with the Ma­yaro MP Nicholas Mor­ris and oth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives, vis­it­ed af­fect­ed ar­eas, and while the wa­ter has re­ced­ed, they were mon­i­tor­ing the Mafek­ing Vil­lage for flood­ing.