As we told you earlier, the National Emergency Management Organization is closely monitoring water levels in the west. That is because while the level of the Sittee River has stabilized, the rivers out west are steadily rising. We spoke to NEMO’s Coordinator Noreen Fairweather at the Roaring Creek Bridge which is expected to flood tonight.
Noreen Fairweather, NEMO Coordinator
“In the south Keith generally the rivers are basically stabling out. The water levels have not so much been increasing but in the Cayo area we’re experiencing the river levels are rising, albeit slowly but steadily rising.
In Bullet Tree area near Calla Creek we’ve been evacuating people, a little at a time as the waters continue to rise. The water levels near Iguana Creek, that bridge continues to be under water and the water level also in that area continues to rise. And we’re here at the Roaring Creek Bridge and at midday thereabout today, currently, an additional two feet the river has risen so we are monitoring the situation.
Most people want to know, we know they can be able to access San Ignacio and Santa Elena area but if this bridge goes down, this is the main access to the west and people want to know the status of the crossing here and so we’re looking at perhaps later tonight if the rise continues as it is now.”
Cayo South Area Representative Ramon Witz told us this evening that he evacuated two families from Roaring Creek.
