Poor plan­ning and sub­stan­dard in­fra­struc­tur­al works are be­ing blamed for the flood­ing that oc­curs at the Mara­cas Beach carpark every time there are tor­ren­tial show­ers along the North Coast.

Res­i­dents from vil­lages scat­tered along the north­ern penin­su­la, such as Las Cuevas, La Fil­lette, Rin­con, and Blan­chisseuse, com­plained of the de­lays they had to en­dure every time the main ac­cess road to Mara­cas Beach is flood­ed.

Sev­er­al hours of in­tense rain­fall yes­ter­day, cou­pled with the high tide, led to the riv­er over­flow­ing and flood­ing the pub­lic carpark and road­way with over three feet of wa­ter in some places.