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Res­i­dents and busi­ness­es in Union Hall, San Fer­nan­do, are again call­ing for ur­gent drainage up­grades af­ter Mon­day’s floods left roads im­pass­able and prop­er­ties un­der wa­ter.

The Gol­con­da Con­nec­tor Road near the Cross Cross­ing In­ter­change has long been a flood-prone area, but busi­ness­man Sher­az Dabideen said this week’s flood­ing was the worst in years.

“Be­cause our area is the catch­ment for Dun­can Vil­lage, Es­per­ance, Philip­pine and Union Hall, and be­cause of the en­tire hous­ing de­vel­op­ment, there is no land to col­lect the wa­ter. We had ex­ces­sive flood­ing be­cause of the heavy rain in a short space of time,” Dabideen said.