Following the sudden heavy rains that fell on the Cap-Haitien in the night from Saturday to Sunday, Cthe apois woke up Sunday morning in a flooded city.

The engineer Bernardin Pierre Joseph, Departmental Director of the Northern Department of Public Works, Transport and Communications (MTPTC) informed that from Sunday morning, the governmental authorities were hard at work and had completely opened up the zone of Vertières to ensure the safety of the population of the flooded area.

Clearing work are underway in the zone of the street 5A to allow water from the flooded river to flow to the sea.

Equipment are in place in the zone of Carrefour Clérice to continue the work of cleaning of 7 kilometers of Canal La Passe and that of the gully Enni.

Governmental authorities are currently working hard, to secure the inhabitants of Quartier Morin and surrounding areas and call the populations of neighboring regions, to remain calm in order to better respond to this situation.

This Monday morning, the Capois of Fort St Michel, Cité du peuple, Blue hills, Vertières, Bas Vertières, Nan Banann and Champin were able to seen the decline of level of the river of Haut du Cap, through the breach created at the mouth of the Street 5, which facilitated water drainage.

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