And tonight there is a flood alert for the Belize River Valley which can expect floodwaters to reach their communities within the next 2-3 days.
Chief Hydrologist Tennille Hendy told us about the affected watersheds:
Tennille Hendy, Chief Hydrologist
"We do have several watersheds that were severely, impacted by the excessive rainfall events. Primarily the Belize River basin, which comprises the Belmopan city outskirts, what we call belmopan city or greater Belmopan city area as well as some stations downstream. so for the station within the Cayo district that received flood levels is the more tomorrow station which peaked above 11 meters of the 12th of July and this was a sharp increase from about 1.1, 1.8 meters to 7.55 meters with on the 12th, the 13th it crested on the 12th beyond 11 meters because we don't have gages beyond that 11 meters so it exceed the historical water levels in that section. The Iguana creek also experienced rapid rise in addition we have the sibun river basin that also had severe flood levels where the water levels exceeded 4, 3.5 meters at the sib and this was a linear increase in the water levels. And lastly we have the city river basin which has experienced the second highest increase the river levels rose from about 1.5 meters on July tenth to 7.7 meters by 6:00Am the 11th of July."
