Public Works Ministry has begun repairing or reconstructing damaged drainages of various streets in and around the capitol during the course of last weekend.
A team of engineers from the Public Works Ministry were seen on Broad Street down Crown Hill adjacent the burned Eurobank carrying out repair works of a damaged drainage which for some time posed danger to the flow of flood water.
Similar repair or reconstruction works of damaged drainages are believed to be ongoing in other parts of the capitol since Saturday, 28 August at the height of the ongoing raining season.
According to engineers who are doing the work, they are removing old coverts and replacing them with concrete ones which are expected to be long lasting. However, the need for the public to stop dumping dirt in drainages cannot be overemphasized.
Rain for days now had made some roads, including Tubman Boulevard, avenues and highways shut down for hours while electricity supply was also cut off in some communities.
The rain also had an impact upon Monrovia’s business centers as it turned several streets into rivers forcing some motorists to abandon their cars while other got stuck.
On Tubman Boulevard, several vehicle owners had to park their cars for hours waiting for the water to recede before venturing back on the road.
Women and children were seen being carried on the backs of young men who found the flood as an opportunity to make some quick money for the day.
Most drainage in Monrovia have outlived their usefulness with a span of almost 200 years now since the birth of the capitol but garbage have clogged most of the drainages thereby preventing the free flow of waters during the raining season.
Besides, street floods as a result of clog drainages caused by dirt in the various slump communities in Monrovia and its environs, people have also built nowadays in the water-ways thereby preventing the free movement of waters.
