The National Works Agency (NWA) is currently in the process of clearing roadways, on a priority basis in order to reopen these corridors to vehicular traffic following rain-related landslides and flooding.
NWA Communication and Customer Services Manager, Stephen Shaw says the Agency’s efforts have been focused on the Shooters Hill and Bull Bay areas of east rural St. Andrew as the locations were earlier affected by severe flooding and washed down silt.
The NWA is also involved in an ongoing operation to clear a roadway in Shooters Hill to allow access to a site where an embankment fell onto a dwelling house in the community earlier today.
The Agency plans to respond to other reported situations upon completing this effort, which it considers a priority at this time. As such landslides and fallen rocks will continue to impede movement along the Gordon Town Road at Craighead, as well as at Flamstead, Mavis Bank, Mt. Lebanon and Dallas Castle in St. Andrew.
The Bartons to Ginger Ridge roadway in St. Catherine at Connors and a section of the Mocho to Frankfield roadway in Clarendon are currently blocked by landslides. So too are the Bath to Hordley, Morant River Bridge to Potosi and the Windsor Forest to Mahogany Vale roadways at Hagley’s Gap in St. Thomas.
A number of other roadways in eastern and central parishes which have been impacted to a lesser extent by flooding, washed down silt and fallen rocks, remain passable. But drivers are still being encouraged to proceed with caution. Driving conditions along main roads affected by washed down silt will not return to normal until clean-up activities are completed.
