FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS, a burst pipe has been running in Byron Lane, Gall Hill, Christ Church and residents there are calling on the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) to fix it.
One woman, who gave her name as Betty, said it was now posing a health hazard to her family.
“It run from up there and coming all down here,” she said, pointing to her neighbour’s yard. “I can’t get out because the yard always flooding, and I had to put those blocks there [to stop me] from falling.”
Betty said she had also suffered an invasion of mosquitoes because of the water settling underneath her window.
“The water causing more mosquitoes to breed and they humbugging me . . . . It just terrible,” she said.
The woman, who lives with her son, said she had called the BWA “too many times”, and was told last week that “it would take some time” before the problem was fixed.
“I called again last week, and the lady say they can’t come because the equipment is using down at the South Coast, so we won’t get it do in a hurry. It was not so bad when it first burst, but since they come and dig it up and leave it so, the water keep running more and more. When the pipes turn on the water does run more, and have in front by me disgusting,” she said.
Similarly, her neighbour, a 78-year-old man who declined to give his name, said the issue had been going on for too long.
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