Seven weeks ago, the Government resumed the work for the construction of a aqueduct in Jarabacoagiving a first palazo in the La Majagüita place, Manabao, a place that is already being intervened to erect a Toma work of river water Yaque del Norte.
The restart of the works would respond to a Social Debt that have the authorities With this municipality for almost two decades, when the work began in 2006 with the construction of a treatment plant, which would then be paralyzed in 2008. It would not have been until 2020 that the Government He advanced in the tender of the work and readjusted the budgets for its execution.
Despite being a land rich in water sources such as Yaque del NorteJimenoa and Baiguate, Jarabacoa It lacks continuous and mass access to drinking waterdepending throughout this time on the limited supply of private treatment plants, the installation of tubular wells or the direct take of the rivers.
He aqueduct– which started with a budget of 750 million and today costs 1.7 billion pesos – would respond to one of the most urgent needs for its developmentresidents, entrepreneurs and investors in the municipality coincide.
Although the work was formally presented recently, the engineer in charge of the work, Darwin Medos, assures that It has worked for five yearsadvancing both in the tender of your work and in the budget adjustments for its execution, and in the installation of Pipes.
“At that time, we have already placed six kilometers of Pipes of ductile iron, which is the adduction line of the aqueduct; It is the entire line that goes along the road, plus the entire line that goes on the river bed, “said Medos, who works for Procisa, a construction company in charge of the work since its inception.
The Toma work It would take the river water to the treatment plant located about six kilometers in the community of Pinar burnedwhere the water will be processed to make it drinkable and suitable for the use of the syrup.
Capacity of aqueduct
He aqueduct will have the capacity to process up to 750 liters of water per second and will be expandable Up to 1,000 liters per second, exceeding 75 liters of water per second that manages the plants managed by the Aqueduct and Sewerage Corporation of La Vega (Coraavega).
The Toma work, First phase In the infrastructure, it would be ready for the next three months.
Rehabilitation of the treatment plant
The structure of the treatment plant It began to be built in 2006, so its structure is already in 85 % of constructionand now it must be rehabilitated.
“Within schedule We have scheduled start in a month. The structural part would be completed in two months, and by the end of next year, everything would be done, “he said.
Medos explains that the Original design of the plant had to be Restructuredbecause it presented “many Failure“, which is why they had to do the budget. This readjustment includes the acquisition of storage tanks and the incorporation of equipment that operates automatically.
The plant is divided into three modules:
- Flocculators
- Sedimentators
- Filters for the treatment of river waters.
Once they go through these modules, it will go to some Storage tanks from where it would be distributed to the entire municipality.
The work is scheduled to enter operations At the end of 2026.
