Flood waters left infrastructural damage estimated at $12.5 billion islandwide.

The NWA has started work on the gullies, including the McGregor Gully in southeast St Andrew, where the agency is to spend $74 million to repair the retaining wall and invert. The gully, which runs through Cherry Gardens, Grants Pen and Halls Crescent, is to be fixed at a cost of $111 million.

Several other gullies in the Corporate Area are to be fixed as well.

Most of the repairs are scheduled to be completed within six months, before the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1.

Gustav roared through the region in late August and early September leaving damage estimated at US$18 billion in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Cuba and the United States.