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Fiji’s Ministry of Works says damage from flash floods in the Central/Eastern divisions overnight has been minimal because of improvements to infrastructure in the past two years.
Ministry spokesperson Sainiana Waqainabete said the biggest single point of damage during the floods had been to the Savu Road leading towards the Naqali Bridge in Naitasiri.
A landslide near Savu Village caused the road to open up.
The road is the only land route from Naqali up to Monasavu in the interior of Viti Levu.
Waqainbete said vehicular access was restored as flood waters receded early this morning by opening up a temporary route alongside the road. It will take several months to repair the road because of the heavy engineering works required.
Waqainabete told FijiLive that there had been a drastic reduction in the extent of damage caused by the floods.
She said roads such as Vuci South, Waituri, Cautata and Koronivia, which previously would have been among the first to suffer damage, had survived this time because of a program in the past two years to carry out better drainage and build higher roads.
It was too early for an estimate of the damage caused by the flooding, she said.
