Storm water floods Port Moresby streets

It's simply dangerous driving around Port Moresby when there is heavy tropical rain or even just continuous showers.

Why is it dangerous?

The streets over flood and can overflow to parks and homes- your low cars can have water reaching into the engines or the cabin of your car.

Worst your car can be damaged.

So as things are it is not advisable to drive around Port Moresby when there is rain or heavy tropical downpour.

We share with you pictures below taken around the round about near the Boroko Foodworld area at Gordon's.

This is the aftermath of flood on April 01, 2023.

The flood has overflown from the road to the park for about 20 metres.

The waste exposed being deposited there is evidence of the extent of the flood.

Many vehicles driving to Erima and beyond 8 mile had to detour using the back road from Parliament to Erima.

The monkey bars at the park opposite Kundu Club have banana stumps, leaves and other trash washed up by flood stuck against them.

Water bottles, empty can drinks,  soil sedimentation, diapers for children and other trash can be seen lying around the park.

The flooded roads and trash washed up are not limited to the Gordons and Erima area.

It appears to be a city wide concern.

The huge Gordon's roundabout near Courts, SP Brewery and Boroko Foodworld has thick sedimentation  washed onto street pavement

It's as high just above the ankle of an average adult person and if you're driving past unaware, you can experience an unexpected dangerous bump. 

So seriously we need a road system where storm water input and output is drained property to a major outlet and our roads and just wet during heavy rains.

Waste management is another concern that we must address now.

The trash exposed already hints a deeper and bigger issue that must be acted on.

But first the citizens must be responsible and dispose your trash at the right place.

Don't just sit in a public transport and throw your empty can drink onto the road.

Don't drive past in your car and throw your food scraps in a plastic bag on the road.

Don't throw the plastic bag with your betel nut spittle onto the road from your car.

Take it home and put in your trash bin.

May be we need tough laws to protect our environment against littering.

It's already a huge concern, very exposed under our noses. 

But I must reiterate we can help alleviate storm water swelling from the drains by not disposing the non biodegrable rubbish in the drains that simply clog the drainage.

 

Here is a video of the trash deposited at the public park opposite Boroko Foodworld, Gordons