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05-02-2007, 05:40 PM
Diario Libre reports that the residents in the Hoyo de la Zurza slum have found a way to take advantage of the landfill that the metro builders constructed as the base for a corridor along the Isabela River, a project that has been on hold for about a year now. Diario Libre reports that improvised garbage dumps prevail in the newly created space and mountains of garbage are now apparent. The newspaper reports that the new improvised garbage areas add to the pollution of the river and that the garbage slips into the river when water levels rise. Geologist Osiris de Leon said that the road site was chosen as a solution for dumping the earth that was dug up to build the metro, in violation of the protected area. De Leon said that the extension of Avenida del Puerto alongside the Isabela River was subsequently abandoned when the builders found they would have to dynamite the ground by the La Zurza area.
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