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03-29-2007, 03:30 PM
President Leonel Fernandez inaugurated yesterday under a downpour of rain the Nunez de Caceres Avenue Environmental Park, which includes a lagoon, sculptures, a cascade, an amphitheater and other installations. The park, built by the Aqueduct Corporation of Santo Domingo (CAASD) cost RD$348 million. The park covers an area of 16,000 meters and was planted with exotic flowers and palm trees. The amphitheater has capacity for 300 people. The President, accompanied by his wife Margarita Cedeno, Diandino Pena, Roberto Salcedo and his mother, Yolanda Reyna, arrived at 7:30pm. Director of the CAASD, Richard Martinez said that the park solved three problems that affected the area: sanitation, rain water and environmental troubles. Previously water would stagnate at the lagoon and became a breeding ground for mosquitoes and also gave off a terrible smell. Now there are new water pumps that take the water to a treatment plant and then finally out to the Caribbean Sea.
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