It will be from Tuesday when population of more than a dozen residential areas in the National District will once again receive drinking water through the pipes, after the fault caused last Friday by a drilling company in a 30-inch pipe on the Duarte Highway.
Brigades of the Aqueduct Corporation and Sewerage of Santo Domingo (Caasd) have worked since day one at the fault next to the entrance of the Don Honorio residential complex.
Cristian Cortesengineer in charge of solving the problem, reported that they have been working on the ID of the place where the drilling took place and in the dredging to proceed to weld a plate to the pipe as soon as possible.
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“We immediately realized the breakdown, we responded with our brigade here from the Caasd, thanks to the management of our director Fellito Suberví,” he said.
He indicated that a piece called “dead box“which will cover the stretch of affected tube and assured that they are working to solve the problem as soon as possible.
Due to the situation they are without water Since Friday, residents in the Ensanche QuisqueyaEl Millón, el Milloncito, San Gerónimo, La Pradera, Manganagua, Residencial José Contreras, Pradera Verde, Gacela and the residential Buenos Aires del Mirador, la Ciénaga, Don Honorio, kilometer 13, among others.
Seizure of the drilling truck
He stated that the situation was immediately known and the seizure of drilling truck to then act legally against those responsible for causing the fault.
In the next few days we are going to do with the proper procedures to submit what has to do with that fault. We are the ones who give the permissions. In other words, they didn’t exhaust the channels and look what happened here, they left almost middle Santo Domingo without water” Cortes said.
