RESIDENTS of Oakland Crescent and surrounding communities in St Andrew South Western have issued an urgent and desperate plea to the National Works Agency (NWA) for the immediate repair to roads in the area, which they say have fallen into disrepair over the years.

The disgruntled residents claim that the main road in the community transforms into an uncharted river it rains, with heavy flooding further destroying the already dug-up street.

“There’s a small drain up the road, and when the rain falls and it overflows, this road here becomes the river. This actually becomes a river where fridge, TV [television], anything old, down to mattresses you see sailing down the road,” one resident, who asked not to be named, told the Jamaica Observer on Monday.