…….plans to sue Town CouncilBy Leon SuseranA Corentyne poultry farmer is blaming inefficient drainage works carried out by theThe view of from another section of the pensMayor & Town Council of Corriverton for his loss of over 10,000 chickens at his #75 Village farm.Mahauda Ganga of Lot 16 Rampoor, Corriverton, has been operating a chicken farm for over 25 years and took Kaieteur News on a grisly tour of the chicken pens where a pungent smell accompanied a sight of thousands of dead chickens, ravaged by flood waters from extensive rainfall in the area last week Monday evening through Tuesday.He made the horrific discovery of all the dead chickens early last week Tuesday morning.Ganga is blaming the Town Council, and Town Clerk in particular,Site Air Max Pas Cher, for placing a 6-inch pipe to drain the lands surrounding the chicken farm in a drainage culvert built to accommodate a 30-inch culvert box.“Because of the pipe, when the rain falls,Cheap Liverpool Shirts, it cannot take off the water. The water rebounded and come straight inside my pen. My pen is the highest pen in the whole of the village”, he said.He showed this publication the other side of the road where the land did not experience any flooding whatsoever, all because it had the 30-inch box at both ends.“When you talk to the Town Clerk, he said it is an act of nature, but this is a direct fault of the Town Clerk, because we talk to him already. They know they have to do this but they just don’t care”, he argued.“We had this same problem last year and we had to break the dam, for the water to pass”, he recounted. “The water then dropped within half an hour.”He estimated his losses at over $3M. “10,000 by 125 equals $1.25M, plus the feed. They done eat 146 bags of feed,” Ganga told Kaieteur News.Mahauda Ganga is in shock as he points to the remains of some of his chickens“The Town Council was informed about the problem but has still not acted. I can’t start right away because that is a big loss, and then I have to find finances to take them to court. Because the Town Clerk and each and every one in the council, when you go to meet them and tell them they always promise to come,Yeezy Scarpe Scontate, but they never, ever appear,Nike Schuhe Neu Herren,” he said.Another farmer,Scarpe Adidas Scontate Online, Suresh, who has another chicken farm a few blocks away said that his farm is also flooded but he is not rearing any chickens at the moment.When contacted, Town Clerk,Air Max 270 Sale, Mr Narendranauth Sookram said, “We addressed the situation. There was a blockage there earlier in the rainy season.”Superintendent of Works, Marlon Garraway said there is a 12-inch pipe in the drain. “The water was so much that it backed up. When we went there on Tuesday morning, we cleared the front of the pipe, but in front of the pipe is the sideline and the water is very high and the people are throwing a lot of waste there. So it could be that that assisted in the blockage,Nike Air Max Cheap Wholesale, too. We went and cleared the area and the water dropped a little,” he said.“It was a terrible situation in the town on Tuesday, since everybody was complaining about flood. The M&TC office was under 6 inches of water in Tuesday and 4 inches on Wednesday morning. As long as the koker close, the water would keep building up. It depends on the tide. If the tide is up the koker cannot open”, the Town Clerk posited.Mr Ganga is planning to take legal action against the Mayor & Town Council of Corriverton.