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12-17-2007, 03:50 PM
President Leonel Fernandez has ordered the Navy to start work on the dredging of the Tavera Dam reservoir as well as all the other artificial lakes in the Dominican Republic. The President said that many of these lakes still contain scraps of wood and other debris left from Hurricane David in 1979. The President was speaking during a graduation ceremony at the Naval Academy, where he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate. Recently the deputy minister for Soils and Waters at the Public Works Ministry suggested that a tender should be announced for removing sediment in the Nizao river area that is threatening the life span of the dams at Las Barias, Valdesia and Jiguey-Aguacate. Some US$15 million is needed to do this work. Estimates say that there are 20 million cubic meters of sediment in the Valdesia reservoir.
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