On Guarocuya Street, right in Las Praderas Park in the sector that bears that name, in the National District, dozens of parents rush to pick up their children amid a strong smell of putrefaction.
The cause is a “lagoon“, part of the system of drainage pluvialwhich is in an alarming state, so its residents ask the corresponding authorities for their rapid intervention to clean it up.
More than ten residents expressed fear that the lack of sanitation of the lagoon cause a flood similar to what occurred on November 18, 2023, according to what was reported to Free Diary.
“He drainage was like it is now,” said Doris Mendoza, who lives in the Cumbres de Las Praderas residential complex, right in front of the Serafín de Asís school. Mendoza showed photographs of her vehicle awash in the parking lot of his apartment and expressed his fear that the same thing would happen this year.
Yulissa Reyes and Belkis Mendoza, also residents of the same complex, regretted the situation and the “bad smell“which affects the communityespecially in the afternoons and evenings.
“The reason for this complaint It is a cry for help for the state of the lagoon; he bad smell It is truly unbearable,” denounced Yansi Vásquez, who criticized the abandonment of the place by the authorities.
The director of the Serafín de Asís school, Sister Alegría Leonardo, supported the complaints, pointing out that “the issue of mosquitoes It affects us in a big way.” Parents at the center also explained that they were forced to change the uniforms of the students, from skirts to pants, to protect them from the mosquitoes and that they have made investments in equipment to catch them.
Residents urgently demand maintenance suitable of the lagoonespecially in the context of the cyclonic season.
They claim to have contacted various State bodies, including the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (CAASD), the Ministry of the Environment and the Mayor’s Office of the National District, but that all of them have evaded their responsibilities. “We have called the CAASD, the Environment, the city council and they all disengaged,” said Belkis Mendoza, agreeing with the concerns of other complainants.
“He rainwater system is designed to collect all the rainwater from Las Praderas, and we are very concerned because rumors indicate that the submersible pump is damaged,” explained one resident, recalling the floods that affected the first floors of his building, where 17 vehicles, including his and his sister’s, were lost underwater.
Residents make a urgent call to the corresponding authorities to take action and avoid a new tragedy in the community.
DNA and Environment will assume
Free Diary He made telephone contact with the Communications directors of the Mayor’s Office of the National District (ADN) and the Ministry of the Environment. The DNA committed to investigate the precise causes of the problem to resolve the situation and establish responsibilitiesalthough they said they had not received the complaint.
Alfredo García, Director of Communications of the ADN, upon being informed of the situation, assured that they would immediately send a equipment to the place to carry out the lifting corresponding “for solve the problem” that affects that community
While Juan Pichardo, director of Environmental Communications, announced that they will carry out a lifting in the area to determine the real causes that cause the floods on the spot and establish which institution corresponds to solution of the problem.
