Neighborhood residents Ramon Matias Mellaformer Blue Tongue, denounced the situation of insalubrity in which they live for the collapse of the sanitary system that returns fecal matter to the bathtubs and runs through some homes.
Residents in the lower part of the sector of the Santo Domingo Este municipality, which borders the Ozama expansion, close to the Duarte bridge, have to endure the bad smell permanent that penetrates your homes.
Luis Brea, community leader, explained that it is necessary to change the system of sewerage health that is already obsolete and it is insufficient to channel the waste, and when the water is sent, the situation becomes complicated and more fecal matter emerges.
“Currently the pipes are collapsed completely, because the system it has is made of cement, so you already know that as time goes by it deteriorates more due to the mice that pass through there, this here is unfortunate,” he said.
He indicated that they have gone many times to the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Caasd) and have delivered communicationsbut the brigades go, put a patch and do not return until they are called again.
Circunvalación or Malecón street is a river of sewage water. The stinking liquids gush out of the manholes and run permanently through the center of the road and the containers until they discharge into the Ozama Riverdistant about 200 meters from the homes.
Dignora Paulino said that they can’t find what to do and their biggest concern is that get sick the children. He stated that they have had to make particular decisions breaking in some places so that fecal matter is discharged into the street.
“We want you to pay attention to us, because it is a very serious problem that we have, one even cries. On the 24th (Christmas Eve) we were swamped making dinner, this is not easy,” said Paulino.
Kenia Aybar narrated that when they eat, the bad smell and sometimes they have to leave the food. “In my house a lot has been spent money cleaning“.
Dahiana Féliz is another of those affected and said that many times they flush the toilets and then the water gushes out of the bathtubs. “What they have told us is that the sewer is filled and then all the waters are they return to the houses.”
Johanna Pérez’s case is one of the most serious because the liquids come out of the bathtub and run through the hall and the yard flooding everything.
