President Luis Abinader signed the decreeor number 597-24, with which the decision to eliminate the transfer station located in Cancino, near the Ozama River, and chose to rebuild it.
This place was, in theory, a transfer stationbut in practice it had become a big landfill settled in the protected area of the Ozama Wetlands, which was used to deposit the garbage carried by the collection trucks.
The Ministry of the Environment had ordered the technical closure definitive and several locations were proposed to build a replacement. The then owner, Orlando Jorge Mera, declared that they would begin an “ecological restoration process after the elimination of that source of contamination that affected the Ozama River.”
The Sustainable DO Trust, which has been in charge of the work, informed Free Diary last July that the closure was 80% complete.
With the aforementioned decree, of October 15, the Executive Branch declared public utility five portions of the land to buy from their owners and build civil works there.
“The acquisition, by the Dominican State, to be used in the remediation through the execution of the technical closure of the open-air landfill and construction of a transfer stationin Cancino, Santo Domingo Este municipality, Santo Domingo province, in charge of the Public-Private Trust for the Comprehensive Management of Solid Waste”, reads the first article.
Recycling plant
The government of Leonel Fernández had also declared it of public utility in 2011 to build there an “advanced thermal recycling plant for the management of solid waste and production of electrical energy.”
The current administration revoked that decree and indicated that “to date the purpose of the declaration of public utility of the portions of land has changed… with the understanding that, instead of being used for the construction of a recycling plant advanced thermal, in said portions of land a Transfer Station“.
