The Parliamentary Representative for Layou Kelver Darroux has said that government is putting forth considerable resources to bring Layou River back to normal.
Damage caused to the river by the Matthieu Dam collapse in July has been exacerbated by further flooding of the river, caused by heavy rainfall.
Sediments have accumulated beneath the surface of the river and any significant rainfall will cause it to overflow its banks, Darroux explained Thursday after more flooding.
Government has said a dredging project is among the measures that will be needed to restore the Layou River.
“The ministry of public works has been engaged over the last several weeks in tremendous work efforts within the area where a number of resources have been extended,” he said.
“We continue to work tirelessly to ensure that we can get the area back to normalcy as soon as possible,” he added.
When the Matthieu Dam collapsed it unleashed massive amounts of water down the Layou River, damaging the Gleau Chaud Bridge and property. The area was declared a disaster area.
Government has granted financial support to farmers and fishermen who have been affected by the catastrophe.
That thing is becoming a joke now. For months we seeing what is happening in that area and yet not much is being done. If it rain for 5 minutes we have the river on the road and vehicles cannotor do are afraid to cross. Come on man, put some cabian baskets or something.
Now you all can blast,but i think this place should be one ansewer to DOMINICA’s economic problem,if they can organise themselves and approach this thing with sincerity, alot can be solved.If they plan to put men to work to bring back this river how it used to be’especially’ the lower section toward the river mouth, then work their way up, then things would fall in place, all the materials can generate income and build structures at the same time.The frist time the sand was squandered this time it should not be missed, i just hope people can work to build Dominica for the kids.Let’s work for the people tomorrow.
Some of us seemed to have forgotten that after the 1997 Layou Floods, it took a couple of years for the Layou River to regain some level of normnalcy, even with massive dredging programme. There is still so much material up below the slide, and whenever it rains heavily the Layou transports more of that sand downstream. Now, because the section of the river running through the Hillsborough area is flat, most of that sand simply settles in that last stretch of river.
DNO, the name of the damaged bridge is the York Valley Bridge. Because of the hot spring (glo-cho) upstream of the bridge, “Glo Cho Bridge” is a nickname for that bridge (as was “Old Bridge” and “New Bridge” for two of the bridges over the Roseau River in the city of Roseau.
A sad situation where people’s lives and public saftey continue to be at risk. It is unfortunate that the government did not exercise appropriate risk management in what could have been a preventable disaster. At the very least intervention could have been done a long time ago to minimize the extent of the flooding as a breach was predictable, given the unstable situation of the damn itself when it formed. Disaster management is not just responding after a situation; it is also risk managment! We will now spend more money from the public purse in response to rebuilding of the road, bridges, dredging and further management of the situation.
Where do they sell a dictionary for politicans?
The ministry of public works has been engaged over the last several weeks in tremendous work efforts within the area where a number of resources have been extended,” he said.
What exactly did he actually say?????
Mr. Darroux thers is constant and 100% normalcy at the red clinic, why is it taking so much time to assist your constituents, guess you are about to bury your head in the sand at Layou because of the slow response from your government.
They need or should dredge the very mouth of the river, and make it very deep there at that. They also need to stop just piling on the sand there along the edge of the banks, because then when it rains suddenly and unexpectedly like it ALWAYS does in Dominica, all that sand is going to do is go right back where it was, and the problem starts all over again.
Also, use that sand and place it on beaches that REALLY NEED IT, more specifically beaches that have been turned virtually into rock.
They should just give that job to the chinese and workers of with public works they should work together to repair the damage. I thnik in no time, the area would be significantly improved.
admin please permit me: Soon enough the “Chinese and French” will even have to come and wipe our behind for us, so low we have come that we can do NOTHING for ourselves.
mr prime minister we no u r christ jesus jus say d word an it will b done. do something about d d mess in layou
y u want to be dunce for @i am dominican… Negative set of people…
@I am dominican. you must be the most foolish dominican. you all must stop that rubbish, how can that help dominica.. FOOL is the word i will call you because i dont want to get ban from this site
No, You can call him/her an ass or a donkey, you won’t be banned because that is what he/she is.
Seriously, if you have nothing useful to contribute or
intend to make any sense what so ever, just shut it!