But, if you live in Belize City, and you cannot even get out of your house without getting wet up to your ankles - even after just the slightest rain, then all that high tech talk about sluice gates, and special pumps is just "yakkety-yak".
That's what regular folks in our neighborhood on Dean And King Streets have been putting up with this week with the recent rains. Again, we asked the mayor for answers. He said the big truck is coming soon:...
Darrell Bradley, Mayor - Belize City
"We were supposed to have this week the transfer of equipment which includes a pump truck and that should have happen this week. That's going to happen next week, because we have to do more renovations at our mile 4 facility just to accommodate the access into our premises for these various equipment."
"That is going to increase our capacity to deal with flooding in a more significant strategic way. We also created a flood mitigation unit at the City Council so that we have units in our council who all they do is deal with flooding and drainage. They do access ways, you've rightly pointed out because we do monitor this that the run off time has been lessen, so that there is improvement and I think with the additional equipment, I think with the additional focus and I think with the additional resources that we have deploy towards to this area, residents will see additional relief in relation to the flooding."
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