The company contractor of the Ministry of Public Works who is in charge of the reconstructions of the roads that connect the Duquesa landfill He assured that in less than a month they will deliver a fully paved section of just over a kilometer.
Four months ago, the work was restarted with a plan, which the engineers they call “link 1“, which includes the construction of 1.2 kilometers that connects the link 1 from the Santo Domingo Beltway with the Los Casabes highway.
Alfred Ollerone of the engineers in charge of this work, stated that the work is very advanced and that later the Los Casabes road will be intervened in a 2.6 kilometer section, a section demanded by the community.
“This is going to be ready for primernot primed for primer At the end of the month we will have the rolling layer ready to be primed along with all the hydraulic works that will make it work,” he said.
He indicated that it will be bumped and the works of art (gutterscuppers, sidewalks), among other works that will ensure that the part being worked on is not damaged. He clarified that this 2.6 kilometer stretch from Jacobo Majluta Avenue to the Los Casabes Playground has already been filled with material, but that work will be done to fill in the holes that have been formed by the passage of the trucks.
The most backward
Of the three accesses that the Duquesa landfillthe most backward is the section of the road Isabella which is in the stone plén phase and has not been able to continue due to the reinstallation of a pipeline of 30 inches from the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Caasd).
This is a 2.6 kilometer stretch of pipes, which was initially the responsibility of the Caasdbut now contractor He took it on in order to complete the work started more than two years ago.
“Initially it was not our responsibility, but the State was made part of it and given that we basically had the participation, we already have that responsibility in our contract that initially was not ours.” The pipes will be imported from Brazil, a process that has already begun.
Inside Duchess
In the inner part of the dump have also opened roads where the trucks travel to deposit the waste in the places and dumps, while the technical closure continues. Some of the roads They require maintenance, but the main ones are in good condition, reported Oller.
“In the operational part, people are no longer queuing to pour the trash of the different districts”, he indicated and expressed the interest of the company contractor to guarantee the functionality of the dump as is the interest of the authorities.
The general intervention
The commitment of the contractors is to condition or reconstruct 9.4 kilometers of internal and external roads that connect the Duquesa landfill and for this the Ministry of Public Worksin the person of its owner, Deligne Ascención, announced the investment of 500 million pesos.
In this dump crises occurred that manifested themselves in the accumulation of trash in the city and the municipalities of the province of Santo Domingo every time it rained due to the poor conditions of the roads, both external and internal.
For more than two years, long lines of trucks have not formed at the entrance to the dump nor how frequent fires.
