By: Ramón Antonio Medina
Jimani. – The Government through the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (Indrhi), started seven projects in the Independencia province with an investment of more than 151 million pesos.
The information was provided in an event held in the assembly hall of the Mayor’s Office of the municipality of Jimaní, by the entity’s director of operations, Juan Carlos Nova, who headed the event, representing the executive director, Olmedo Caba Romano.
Novas stated that, with the start of the works, the social and economic development of the border province will increase, which is one of the objectives of the current government administration of President Luis Abinader.
He stated that the execution is part of the investment of the Development Plan of the Independence Provincewhich with the investment item that will be made by the Southwest Development Institute (Indesur), which begins with a first investment of 400 million pesos, of the 1,000 million that the projects contemplate.
The operational director of Indriindicated that It is expected that the designs of the works will be finalized in two weeks so that, at the end of the month of February, they will be started.
The official highlighted the role played in the initiation of the projects by the former Executive Director of Indesur, Frank Alejandro Herasme Soto, current director of the Technical Execution Unit of Agroforestry Projects (Utepda), who he said has made an effort extraordinary for the purposes that concern the development plan of Independence.
For her part, the civil and provincial governor of Independencia, Mercedes Novas, expressed that, for more than 20 years, said border province needed these works for agricultural development.
The projects
Among the works that were announced are the construction of the Jimaní canal intake on the Blanco River, as well as the rehabilitation of the Jimaní reservoir, paralyzed since 2004, and the rehabilitation of the Jimaní canal, including the rehabilitation of a Flumen that fed various agricultural sectors.
In addition, the rehabilitation of discontinuous sections of the Manuel Viejo canal, in the municipality of Duvergé, and the construction of gabions in the spillway dam at kilometer 19 of the Cristóbal Mella canal. The rehabilitation of the Japan siphon in the municipal district of La Colonia was also left in progress.
