Santo Domingo, DR.- The president Luis Abinader supervised the operation of the canyon Villa Linda – Palmarejo, cleaned up by the current government, and immediately announced that the missing 300 meters will be intervened.
This intervention will conclude the 3.9 kilometers of the stream that, every time it rained, flooded the sectors of the municipal district.
During his tour, the president contacted the reality of the locals, after the heavy rains that fell in the national territory as a result of tropical storm Melissa.
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On his tour, the ruler heard from the residents about the change in their lives, after the cleanup of the ravine that crosses the town.
The president spoke with the locals who expressed the tranquility that the intervention of the stream that in other times flooded the community with a third of the rains that fell in recent days gives them.
The community members told the president that before the intervention, the area was one of the most vulnerable to flooding and said that it is one of the best investments that any government has made in the town.
President Abinader announced that immediately the sanitation process is completed, the paving of the sector will begin, for which he gave instructions to the Minister of Public Works, Eduardo Estrella.
“I wanted to come to confirm that we are going to do a program with the CAASD“for us, in all the canyons of great Santo Domingo, to use this intervention as an example,” said the president.
The head of state received explanations from the director of the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (CASD) Fellito Suberví, who indicated that the intervention took place in three stages.
He explained that so far, in the first two stages, about 3.6 kilometers have been completed, and the last phase of about 300 meters is legal.
He said that as part of the process, the glen is being converted into a street through which residents can travel on foot and soon in vehicles.
He indicated that the intervention included the reconstruction of about 50 homes that were on the bank of the ravine and that made them vulnerable.
The intervention of the canyon, which benefits about 5 thousand families, was carried out in a first stage that included the Los Codos – Los Rieles sectors, with 1.4 kilometers in length; the second phase in Villa Linda with 1.2 kilometers and the third phase that will begin in the coming weeks of 300 meters.
The complete intervention process entails a total investment of about RD$ 420 million.
Suberví explained that to date 16 ravines have been built and cleaned in greater Santo Domingo and that 29 remain to be intervened, for which the Government is making an investment of about RD$8,000 million.
