Hydrologist Explains What Caused Flooding

Gordon then turned us over to Chief Hydrologist Hendy who explained how the high levels of rainfall led to flooding in our main river systems.

Tennille Hendy, Chief Hydrologist

"So what we saw was the flooding was caused primarily by rainfall totals due to excessive volumes and it resulted in substantial run off into these systems and the higher impacted systems centrally where the rainfall was concentrated is the Belize river valley system, at more tomorrow And now we're seeing that downstream at the Double Run station, which is our own Sand hill, in the lower Belize River is now experiencing bank full, flood stages. The Sibun river continues to,exceed bank full and continues to increase on a linear direction."