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Santo Domingo.- The Santo Domingo Water and Sewage Corporation (CAASD) and the Engineers, Architects and Surveyors Guild (CODIA) will present the Greater Santo Domingo Sewerage Master Plan today, in addition to the Digital Cartography, considered unique in the country.
CAASD director Alejandro Montas said the goal is to implement 25 percent of the Plan in the next 10 years, "significantly improving the environmental and health conditions of the National District and Santo Domingo province residents."
He said the project will result in a completely modern sewage system with economically and environmentally sustainable technology.
"Submerged discharges, treatment plants, pumping stations, collection lines and connections, all designed to permanently restore the environmental quality of the Ozama, Isabela and Haina rivers; the city’s aquifers and the Caribbean Sea," Montas said in a statement.
He said the plan shows the Government’s concern with Greater Santo Doming’s sanitation, and its announcement coincides the CODIA’s 50th anniversary.
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This I find most baffling......we take much less than 10 years to build the metro, a grandiose and very expensive pet project with questionable benefits; however, it will take 10 years to achieve completion of a sewage system, which is absolutely necessary for health and environmental needs and growth and foreign investment. Seems to me the priorities are upside-down here.
MJEV.
I'm guessing they'll only focus on the areas with many high-rises because this will entail lots of work and tunneling, a lot more than the metro. I hope they also bury these ugly power lines.
"Submerged discharges, treatment plants, pumping stations, collection lines and connections, all designed to permanently restore the environmental quality of the Ozama, Isabela and Haina rivers; the city’s aquifers and the Caribbean Sea,"
50% over 10 years and 100% over say 20 years is more to my liking, BUT it's at least a significant down payment on this very important infrastructure need. Other DR cities, like Santiago, should also get on with a similar plan of action.
" I hope they also bury these ugly power lines."
It's common sense that they'll do that, as well as water main lines, natural gas pipes, and TV/Telephone cables, will all be underground.
Treatment plants should take advantage of all that good shit coming in, to "digest" it and extract lots of free Methane.! And the solids can be used as great fertilizer! It will help pay for for the plant itself, eventually.
How much is a tankful of natural gas for cooking/powering cars, these days? ..How about a cubic metre of fertilizer?..Anyone know?
He is so full of caca, literally !
It will be 100 years after everyone steals the money for this caca solution.
And only 50 years behind with10 more years to try and catch up 25%...
"Seems to me the priorities are upside-down here." yes.. as most of use know already!
Well STILL that's what happens when strong decisions regarding modernization of the taxation regime in our country takes soooooooooooo long to address. No doubt had the winds blown differently during those middle to late days of the 1960's, infrastructural needs like this would have been largely addressed; as would have been education and the host of other deficits we face in DR.
But just look on the bright side-there's one after all-things are moving in the right direction. The problems associated with our current poor ranking took many decades to get us in the hole, and the solutions will come, but not as fast as many wish. 'Tiempo al tiempo.' 20 years, as Gardel said, "No es nada" In the life of a republic, even less so.
Cheers
.... "I hope they also bury these ugly power lines."
DT should put a "Like" and "Dislike" buttons to be used on the posts. On the above comment written by Danilo I would click the Like one.
Overall I am very glad they are going to work on the sewage system. I think they need to take the "caca" out of the salamis and the aquifers as well.
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