Dominican Capital RD$350M Facelift to Start at the Shore

The adequate handling of the urban center’s waste water prior to reaching the city’s south coast will change the zone’s panorama, while the infrastructure required to improve services will guarantee environmental quality.

The capital’s City Council has resumed a project begun in 2007 to recover zone, at a cost of RD$350 million with which it plans to intervene part 83,000 square meters along the city’s coast in the next few years, from the obelisks to Haina and Costa Verde, and convert it into a model area.

In fact the major interventions will be those which aren’t seen, said Santo Domingo Strategic Plan coordinator Patricia Cuevas.

The City Council official said the Plan includes a waste water handling program along the south coast, in coordination with the Aqueducts Agency (CAASD), the Transport Reform Office (Opret) and will implement a storm runoff and sewage drainage system with adequate treatment.

Interviewed by listin.com.do, Cuevas said the Plan, whose feasibility studies have been concluded, includes pipes along the south coast towards treatment plants located on the shore.

Another “unseen” benefit will be the implementation of alternate routes for trucks and the regulation of schedules, “because now we have the problem that everything takes place at the same time in the city. All hours are rush hours. The children leave the school, the trucks deliver their merchandise and the tractor trailers travel at all hours,” Cuevas said.