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‘Photo Focus’ exposures bear fruit
Exposures in the ‘Photo Focus’ on two different occasions have recently borne results.
The new bridge nears completion
One was the exposure on June 22nd of the dilapidated bridge at Beruwala, where the villagers of Kadolana Doova in Moragalla, had to risk their lives daily travelling across a broken bridge over a crocodile infested river which collapsed while a family was crossing it.
Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa who visited the area promised the people a new bridge would be constructed without delay.
In the aftermath of the ‘Photo Focus’ exposure the army moved in to reconstruct the bridge and the villagers will now breathe a collective sigh of relief.
Photo focus exposure on 22 June 2014
The Army’s Engineering Unit is presently involved in construction of the bridge.
Another was the exposure regarding the formation of sand banks at the Chilaw lagoon preventing fishermen from taking their boats out to sea which appeared in these columns on July 20th.
As our photograph shows, the Fisheries Department officials and officials from the Coast Conservation Department took prompt action to clear the sand bank.
However fishermen fear that if the sand is not removed, but stored at the estuary, it could be washed back and there could be a recurrence of the blockage
 Soldiers of the Army's Engineering Unit engaged in constructing a permanent structure |
 A dredger clearing sand bar at the mouth of the estuary |
 "Photo Focus" exposure of 20th July 2014 |
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