Some residents of the Blue Berry Hill squatting area in Linden, had to battle flood waters which inundated their yards and even entered some homes during Sunday night’s torrential rains.And according to the concerned people,Wholesale Jerseys, this has never happened in the more than 28 years that they have been living in the community.The flooding was due to a drain that is currently being constructed in the area without an outlet for the water to run off.And to make matters worse, the residents said, was the fact that the stuff that had been dug from the drain accumulated at the end of the road where it intersects with another road. However, in the middle of the intersection is the drain.One resident said that he had warned the contractor to remove the accumulated stuff or insert a ‘gully’ to facilitate water runoff,Stitched Jerseys, and to build a ‘bank’ on his side of the road to guard against water running into his yard after a heavy downpour.However, that was not done, and the result was that the man and his family were severely affected by the water which found an escape route in their yard.“Now in all the 28 years I’ve lived here with no drains,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, this has never happened now soon as they put this drain here,NFL Jerseys 2018, we getting flood out. These people that are coming into the area to do contracts, they should speak to people within the communities to learn about the terrain etc,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping, but they are not doing that.”“So we have to suffer because of certain precautionary measures that they failed to take.”To make matters worse, the drain is higher than the two roads so any heavy downpour would result in the flooding of these two thoroughfares.The residents have condemned the attitude of contractors who they say continue to do unsatisfactory work,Discount NFL Jerseys, and in the event of flooding due to their negligence, would adamantly refuse to take responsibility.Many residents have also expressed their concern, time and again, that contractors are brought from outside Region Ten to execute these works, when many persons in Linden with the requisite skills remain unemployed.