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Residents of Lopinot Road are crying out for help after they were flooded out by several feet of water following Monday's heavy rains. They claim that HDC and WASA are to blame. Rynessa Cutting has more.
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00:00This was the Lopino main road on Monday, after 20 minutes of torrential rainfall.
00:14All of the homes and business places along the stretch flooded out, water 4 feet and
00:19above in height.
00:21Visiting the scene 24 hours later, it was hard to imagine that it was the same area,
00:26except for the tell-tale signs of flood clean-up.
00:35The source of the flooding, according to residents, HDC developments and a lack of proper drainage.
00:41They recently started building more houses up in the back, so the drainage, again, is
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00:47They don't have proper drainage.
00:50How long have you all been on this spot here?
00:52Over 30 years.
00:56And have you ever seen flooding like it did yesterday?
01:00Oh no.
01:01It started a couple of years ago, about maybe two or three years ago, when they started
01:05building houses in Newt.
01:07So then, obviously no proper drainage, so then we started to get the floods.
01:11We had a bad flood October 2022, but yesterday was worse than then, and that flood was horrible.
01:19Roughly how many feet of water are we talking about?
01:21It's high to me, so maybe about three or four feet.
01:25But residents say there's another piece of infrastructure exacerbating the flooding,
01:30and they're once again pointing the finger at a state agency.
01:33Rain came, and as usual, we always get flood, right?
01:40But this trip was even more worse because of that wall across it that was put down.
01:46Nobody likes to put down a wall in the state garden themselves, too.
01:50I know to myself, when rain have to come this year, we're going to get it real bad, because
01:56the water will back to the wall and back in, and that's exactly what happened yesterday.
02:01Right?
02:02That's exactly what happened yesterday.
02:04So even though we were getting flood all the time, it was worse yesterday now because of
02:09the wall.
02:10The residents also lament that despite the degree of flooding experienced on Monday,
02:15minimal help has been forthcoming.
02:18Last two years, I lost my two washing machines, my chiller for outside here and my fridge
02:23inside.
02:24Up to now, I didn't get funding to say, well, look, I'll buy back our washing machines and
02:30– you understand?
02:31Nobody came.
02:32And look, this year, it's the same thing.
02:33We can't afford a fridge and a battery, right?
02:38So I don't know why things are taking place.
02:39I don't know.
02:40What are the residents asking for to help alleviate or solve this issue?
02:45Proper drainage.
02:47The rivers are high.
02:48They're not cleaning the rivers.
02:49They're not maintaining anything here.
02:50Nothing is being done.
02:51We don't see our councillor.
02:52We don't see an MP.
02:53Oh, don't worry.
02:54Elections are around the corner.
02:55We're going to see them.
02:56So, I mean, just show up now.
02:57Show up and help us a little bit, because every year, so we can't keep taking this loss.
02:58It's a lot of losses.
02:59TV6 News contacted both WASA and HTC, and we are awaiting responses from both HTC and
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03:41The government is giving an assurance that the affected constituents will be assisted
03:45in accessing the requisite support from the regional cooperation and or social services.
03:51Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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