Parliamentary Representative for St. Joseph, Kelver Darroux, has reported that the Layou area received a “serious beating” from heavy rainfall associated with a tropical depression over the weekend.
“We experienced some major setbacks and we saw the Layou River diverted from its natural form. The river eroded several portions of the road around the Layou area with significant damages,” Darroux stated.
He said several homes were flooded and some residents had to be evacuated.
“You will recall that after the (Matthieu) dam collapsed last year, several of the residents were affected and they experienced similar damages over the weekend,” Darroux revealed.
According to Darroux, the government of Dominica had previously secured a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank to address all the major infrastructural work in that area and he is hoping that as soon as the funds can be drawn down work will commence on addressing some of the damage done.
Persons are advised to go through the Layou Valley area with caution.
why do some people have to write a long allaluia
The river needs to be dredged according to its original course. Use the material to fix our roads and stop depending on the frenchman to drag our projects. They pile the sand in the river and for weeks and months it remains there, obviously when the river overflow its banks the same material we spend millions to pile is washed away. I am not an engineer but there is alot of pussy footing in the layou river, and our technical officers are sleeping and cannot see that the frenchman boat cannot clear the piles fast enough. Our roads on the east and south east are terrible, take a look at the Pond Case to Delices Road, can’t Government give Public Works a contract to fix that road and use the Layou River material to cut down on cost? That piece of road used to be the best. The wise men came from the East but look like they are asleep now. Pal. Reps are sleeping too? The wise men are on the North now; Everything is on the North now. How pathetic and our people just sit there and say nothing.
The Layou river is a mess! The river is much more mightyfull than man! It amuses me to see the time and energy put in by the bulldozers taking the sand from the river and putting it in piles by the side of the road. Hours and hours of work. Well in one night all of the piles of sand have gone. Please dredge the river and let the river take her course!
they should have allowed Dominicans free access to that sand. The number of ppl trying to build!! Imagine the significant reduction in building that would ensue and the piles of sand that just got washed away would have been put to great use. Greedy ppl!!
man,,…i wish i could thumbs up a million times….so true
Somebody’s brain is blocked like the river. The solution is dredging, if you clear the river the water will flow on it’s normal path. Water will always follow the path of least resistannce. Clear the river bed man. The source of the the problem the core of the problem. THINK.
Like his party this guy is not fit for purpose.
Well over a year they secured a loan to fix the area, he now says as soon as the they can draw the money, how long is it going to take another year and another disaster?.
I guess they voted for you so I guess they are happy to have their homes constantly in danger.
…According to Darroux, the government of Dominica had previously secured a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank to address all the major infrastructural work in that area and he is hoping that as soon as the funds can be drawn down work will commence on addressing some of the damage done…
How long ago was that? and how long do we have to wait for these funds to be ‘drawn down’?
IF a loan was secured….let us get the ball rolling…No need to wait till an election year..
articles like this one without pictures is equivalent to a DBS news article…. there i say that they would probably have been more descriptive as well? come on DNO….
Please! Do not mess with mother nature the Layou river is just reclaiming what man the biggest destroyer of mother nature,took away from the orginal path of the river. Therefor we would be best advised to move LAYOU” village from its present location to higher ground to wit in the area by Rolle estate Purchase some of the land and start a fresh or else we are doomed to revisit the same whenever it rain as in the past.
DNO, Lets ne serious what has this Parl rep Kelver Daroux done since the last major flood to avoid the current situation? Is the response to my question going to be; Plunging the Layou community further into poverty. Its a shameful ststement by the parl Rep in the absence of any positive action by him or the government to prevent the current situation from happening.Nothing in his statement say “despite all what this Government has done to protect the village”. This Parl rep greatest claim to fame is making his constituents and the St. Joseph community by extension the poorest community under his watch. Hats off to him on this one.