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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Riverine flood alert discontinued after days at orange level

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24 days ago
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Af­ter sev­er­al days of alerts that reached the or­ange lev­el, the Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice has of­fi­cial­ly dis­con­tin­ued its river­ine flood alert for the Ca­roni and South Oropouche Riv­er basins.

The green-lev­el can­cel­la­tion took ef­fect at 10 am on Sat­ur­day, fol­low­ing steady im­prove­ment in riv­er con­di­tions and no fur­ther sig­nif­i­cant rain­fall in the fore­cast.

The Ca­roni Riv­er, par­tic­u­lar­ly near El Car­men and up­stream ar­eas, has fall­en well be­low crit­i­cal thresh­olds. Fur­ther down­stream at Bam­boo Set­tle­ment #3, wa­ter lev­els re­main el­e­vat­ed but are now be­low 80% of riv­er ca­pac­i­ty and con­tin­ue to de­cline slow­ly.

The South Oropouche Riv­er has al­so re­ced­ed sig­nif­i­cant­ly and is now mea­sur­ing just un­der 50% ca­pac­i­ty.

While some low-ly­ing ar­eas re­main wa­ter­logged from ear­li­er over­top­ping, of­fi­cials say con­di­tions are grad­u­al­ly im­prov­ing. The on­go­ing spring tide had de­layed drainage, but with the tide ex­pect­ed to fall by 12:12 pm, fur­ther im­prove­ment is an­tic­i­pat­ed.

Res­i­dents in flood-prone ar­eas are still be­ing urged to re­main cau­tious, avoid con­tact with flood­wa­ters, and fol­low of­fi­cial in­struc­tions.


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