00:00The impact of last night's rainfall was felt inside homes between Claxon Bay and Calcutta.
00:06The Kuvatabaki Talpa Regional Corporation says it received 26 reports of flooding with its disaster management unit,
00:14assessing 20 homes last night and another six homes this morning.
00:19But Regional Corporation Chairman Ryan Rampasad says one area in particular has raised concern.
00:25I'll be calling on my, on town and country, I'll be calling on my building inspectors department at my Regional
00:32Corporation as well as my Corporate Secretary,
00:34everyone to come and see what is happening here, right, and put an immediate stop date and ensure the problem
00:41is fixed.
00:42Because apart from stopping the problem, we need stopping the further development that is, right, stopping it doesn't solve the
00:50problem.
00:51Rampasad says the focus must also be on restoring the natural flow of water through the area.
00:56He said the land was recently filled, reducing what residents say was a much wider outlet for the water.
01:03So this person filled this land and they have restricted or reduced the flow from an approximately,
01:10what I've been told by the residents, it was approximately a 10 feet, at least 10 feet outfall,
01:17and it has been reduced, that is a four-feet cylinder there.
01:21Rampasad says the timing of the flooding has also raised the questions.
01:25He says the development appears to have been done recently and last night's rainfall was the first major test to
01:32the area since the work was completed.
01:35This is the first major rainfall since that work was done.
01:37So that work was done just recently. You can see the grass now sat in the ground up there.
01:41He says the location on a back road may have contributed to the development going unnoticed.
01:47Now it's in a back road, right? So some developments take place unregulated, undetected, and this is one of them
01:57that apparently happened like that.
01:59Rampasad says the regional cooperation will now be engaging the relevant authorities
02:03as it seeks to determine what caused the obstruction and how the water course can be restored.
02:08For residents whose homes were affected, the major concern is getting the water flowing freely again before the next major
02:16rainfall.
02:17Charlotte Histo, TV6 News.
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