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08-10-2011, 04:50 PM
Citizens can see there is a backup in garbage collection across Santo Domingo. The rains of Emily led to the accumulation. But the main reason is the failure of city governments to give budgetary priority to the fixing of the road leading to the Duquesa dump. Works are advancing, but the problem never should have happened, says an editorial in El Caribe.
When matters got to a point of no return, now Onofre Rojas, director of the Commonwealth of the Greater Santo Domingo says the Ministry of Public Works is contributing RD$10 million to fix the road, the city government of Santo Domingo another RD$10 million, Santo Domingo East, North and West municipalities are coming up with RD$5 million, Los Alcarrizos will put up RD$2 million, and the Dominican Municipal League will fund another RD$8 million. The rest will come from the company that manages the Duquesa dump.
El Caribe reports that the estimated cost of the repair of the 1.9-km road is RD$45 million.
The road had gotten to such a state of deterioration that the truck owners, for the safety of the drivers and ware on the trucks, refused to transport the garbage to the city dump.
El Caribe editorial explains the municipalities were waiting for the central government to come to their rescue all along, hoping it would pick up the cost of the repair.
After going forward with the repairs to a stretch of the highway to Duquesa, the road was opened to the garbage trucks and dump trucks that carry the refuse to the land fill yesterday.
Jose Miguel Martinez, the director of Sanitation of the National District city government, reported that just between 7am and 8:30 am yesterday more than 50 trucks went through loaded with garbage collected the previous day.
Martinez estimates that the repairal work would end by the end of the week, as long as the rains hold off.
Hoy reports that Presidency Minister Cesar Pina Toribio said that President Leonel Fernandez will meet with National District Mayor Roberto Salcedo to discuss the permanent repairal of the road.
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When matters got to a point of no return, now Onofre Rojas, director of the Commonwealth of the Greater Santo Domingo says the Ministry of Public Works is contributing RD$10 million to fix the road, the city government of Santo Domingo another RD$10 million, Santo Domingo East, North and West municipalities are coming up with RD$5 million, Los Alcarrizos will put up RD$2 million, and the Dominican Municipal League will fund another RD$8 million. The rest will come from the company that manages the Duquesa dump.
El Caribe reports that the estimated cost of the repair of the 1.9-km road is RD$45 million.
The road had gotten to such a state of deterioration that the truck owners, for the safety of the drivers and ware on the trucks, refused to transport the garbage to the city dump.
El Caribe editorial explains the municipalities were waiting for the central government to come to their rescue all along, hoping it would pick up the cost of the repair.
After going forward with the repairs to a stretch of the highway to Duquesa, the road was opened to the garbage trucks and dump trucks that carry the refuse to the land fill yesterday.
Jose Miguel Martinez, the director of Sanitation of the National District city government, reported that just between 7am and 8:30 am yesterday more than 50 trucks went through loaded with garbage collected the previous day.
Martinez estimates that the repairal work would end by the end of the week, as long as the rains hold off.
Hoy reports that Presidency Minister Cesar Pina Toribio said that President Leonel Fernandez will meet with National District Mayor Roberto Salcedo to discuss the permanent repairal of the road.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)