Pimentel, Duarte.– In response to a claim of more than 20 years, the president Luis Abinader inaugurated this Sunday the wastewater treatment plant of the municipality of PimentelDuarte province, thus fulfilling its commitment to bring dignity and well-being to the communities, by guaranteeing adequate sanitary conditions for residents who for decades lived with open wastewater.
The work, delivered together with the executive director of the National Institute of Drinking Water and Sewers (INAPA), Wellington Arnaud, will benefit more than 14,800 inhabitants of the town.
The plant includes new sand traps, anaerobic primary lagoon, a facultative secondary lagoon, another facultative maturation lagoon and a chlorine disinfection system, in order to guarantee an adequate process of collection, treatment and final disposal of wastewater in Pimentel.
In the central words of the act, Arnaud highlighted that for two decades the work was not a priority for the authoritiesand that Luis Abinader had to reach the Presidency so that resources could be allocated and this intervention that today brings health and well-being to the population could become a reality.
“We are sowing health and well-being, ensuring that each peso is invested efficiently to improve the quality of life of the Dominican people,” said the official.
Arnaud also highlighted President Abinader’s interest in carrying out works that, although they do not represent political capital immediately, they have a deep social impact.
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“This is a work that cannot be seen, because most of it is buried, but the president is clear that it transforms people’s lives,” he indicated.
Likewise, he explained that as part of the efficiency and transparency policy of the Government, in this management the excavations are first carried out and the works are concluded, and then proceed to the paving of the intervened roads throughout the municipality.
“Before, the asphalt was applied and then broken to lay the pipes. Now, every penny of the Dominican people is executed efficiently, effectively and, above all, transparently”, emphasized Arnaud.
