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Santo Domingo. - The biologist Gladys Rosado suggests a contingency plan for farming and tourism projects in safe zones to deal with the new reality around the ever expanding Enriquillo Lake.
She said the lake zone needs an evacuation route because its growth could lead to other tragedies such as the one of its affluent Blanco river in Jimaní in 2004, which killed more than 1,000 people.
As to new production projects Rosado suggested the use of new water species which have appeared, such as crabs.
The biologist, speaking on Enriquillo’s situation in the symposium “Impacts and perspective of solution” hosted by the Santo Domingo State University (UASD), reiterated climatic change, the deterioration of irrigation structures which fail to control surface waters, as some of the possible causes of its expansion.
As a possibility she also noted seismic activity which could break open new flow routes for aquifers.
As to the lake growth’s social impact, the economist Joaquin Diaz warned that most of the 2,000 families which live in the Enriquillo lake shore can fall into extreme poverty, because it’s a zone with already high levels of poverty.
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This way, you could use it to transport product to Barahona and export...Use this mess to economical advantage for the region
"As a possibility, she also noted seismic activity, which could break open new flow routes for aquifers"
That's what I've been saying all along!
Now, common sense dictates that waters will continue to rise until the lake's at the same level with aquifers.
There's really not much we can do except, maybe, divert rivers from emptying into the lake. But that'll require lots of $$$ and experienced engineers which, presumably,we have little of.
So, what else are we to do? I don't know. My only suggestion is to live with it and make the best of a bad thing that, ultimately, may not be so bad after all.
In other words, make lemonade. Know what I mean?
2) the moderators should really do something with all the bots that advertise on these pages.
From: United States
It's under sealevel, that's why.
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0 Written by: telemeco, 14 Oct 2011 9:28 AM
From: United States, Paterson, New Jersey
Channel have Lock
Does kind of put the stops to your drainage channel telemeco, you would have to keep the lock closed in order to keep the sea from running into the lake. this would also tend to screw up the shipping idea. Think Holland, or New Orleans. what ever comes in must be pumped out.