As it continues to rain heavily in eastern parishes, NWA parish teams have had to be working to restore access along a number of roadways impacted by landslides and flooding.
In St. Thomas, the corridors from Morant Bay to Port Morant, Pleasant Hill to Hectors River, Bath to Hordley, Hordley to Haining and Yallahs to Morant Bay at Pamphret, Belvedere and Roselle remain impassable due to flooding. Material from a landslide and fallen trees are currently being cleared from the Morant Bay to Wilmington corridor in an effort to re-establish vehicular access.
National Works Agency (NWA) Communication and Customer Services Manager, Stephen Shaw says over in Portland, efforts to clear drains to relieve flooding of the Folly Main road is being hampered by the rising sea tide. He says the area will drain only when the rainfall subsides.
Elsewhere in the parish, the Fellowship to Berrydale and Mt. Hermon to Swift River roadways are impacted by landslides at multiple locations, reducing the roadway to single lane at those sections. Temporary restoration and protective works are to be carried out at Chelsea and Silverstock to prevent the road embankment from breaking away further.
Activities to clear a major landslide along the Union Hill to Lambkin Hill roadway in St. Mary is continuing. The roadway remains single lane. So too the Frankfurt to Gayle roadway in the vicinity of Labrinth.
Both St. Mary and Portland are still experiencing heavy rainfall and efforts to clean roadways and mitigate flooding are being hampered by loose, falling material and high tide.
Motorists are being cautioned against using roadways and bridges that might be flooded or travelling at high speeds on wet and heavily-silted roadways.
