NewsWhore
09-14-2010, 03:10 PM
Lake Azuei in Haiti seems to want to be reunited with its twin Lake Enriquillo in the southwestern Dominican Republic. It has risen with water barely half a kilometer from the Isla gas station in Jimani. A land section had separated the two bodies of water that millions of years ago were known to be a water path. The rising waters have affected farmlands and urban areas, namely Jimani, the largest city in the border provinces. The Jimani market stands have had to be relocated and the waters have also engulfed stretches of the highway that links Haiti and the DR.
Luis Abelardo Perez Gonzalez, president of the Ecologic Society of Duverge (Soedu) said that the flooding of Lake Enriquillo has resulted in the loss of large areas of farmland in Las Baitoas alone forcing, 215 farming families to leave. He reported that thousands of coconut trees and plantations of mango, avocado and other fruits were destroyed.
The rising waters have affected communities all around the lake, including Las Clavelinas, Los Arroyos, La Descubierta, Postrer Rio, Boca de Cachon and Villa Jaragua.
Listin Diario reports that to prevent bringing the traffic between both countries through Jimani to a standstill, the authorities continuously have to fill in the road with limestone, resulting in the old border fence dividing the two countries being practically buried in the limestone to the height of a four-year old boy.
Residents now are proposing that the authorities give them facilities so they can acquire small boats to establish a new transport system.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)
Luis Abelardo Perez Gonzalez, president of the Ecologic Society of Duverge (Soedu) said that the flooding of Lake Enriquillo has resulted in the loss of large areas of farmland in Las Baitoas alone forcing, 215 farming families to leave. He reported that thousands of coconut trees and plantations of mango, avocado and other fruits were destroyed.
The rising waters have affected communities all around the lake, including Las Clavelinas, Los Arroyos, La Descubierta, Postrer Rio, Boca de Cachon and Villa Jaragua.
Listin Diario reports that to prevent bringing the traffic between both countries through Jimani to a standstill, the authorities continuously have to fill in the road with limestone, resulting in the old border fence dividing the two countries being practically buried in the limestone to the height of a four-year old boy.
Residents now are proposing that the authorities give them facilities so they can acquire small boats to establish a new transport system.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)