Right now, residents of the Forest Home Village in the Toledo District are experiencing the after-effects of flooding because the stream which flows through it swelled.
Those living in the area say that it is believed that lack of maintenance by public works, and the dumping of garbage into the stream.
Our colleagues from PGTV spoke with a few of the villager about the problem, and here's what they had to say:
Reporter
"Why you think all this flooding is taking place in your village?"
Resident
"Because of the garbage and the tree limbs and the coconut tree that they chopped and they throw here. The other day we had taken off all those things off the bridge - lots of mess because vehicles couldn't pass."
Resident
"You see all the drains are backing up right now. There are lots of things in the creek that needs to clean out and due to the garbage that they throw in the creek, the culverts are getting stopped up."
Reporter
"Nobody is cleaning the culverts?"
Resident
"They haven't clean out the creek and this is our main concern because school is starting and half of the villagers lives behind the creek."
Because Forest Home is considered to be at high elevation, the flooding was of concern for the villagers. It has since gone down, but it has left the roads in bad condition.
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