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PUERTO PLATA.-a group of specialists in environmental management and biologists conducted in just this week a study in Cabarete lagoon, who threw as a result a high degree of contamination existing in that ecosystem that abuts the mahogany hotel owned by businessman in season 5 Michel Gay Croisier, then President of the Association for the development of Cabarete (ADECA).
Participating professionals in the environmental study is Dr. Liliana Betancourt Fern?ndez; who is the technical coordinator in environmental management coastal-marine biotic component, code 01-020 and Dr. Alejandro Herrera Moreno; specialist management environmental component fisico-natural, code 01-019, who analyzed the water quality and the results of physical and chemical parameters of the lagoon of Cabarete.
These specialists concluded its study by issuing the thesis that "total solids ranged from 168.6 to 178.2 milligrams in seasons 2, 3 and 4, but reached a value of 1,377 milligrams, 5 station as if it is above the norm, while total and fecal coliforms were above the highest value of the limit of detection of the method, and therefore above the standards in all seasons"indicating a high microbiological contamination in all channel.
Likewise in the analysis was detected the presence of a great human conglomerate since the hotel facilities close to the lagoon pouring their waste along the canal, which without a doubt are responsible for this contaminant loads, to the extent that this situation has worried the technical participants in sampling, because as a result of investigations and operations of authorized personnel found a pipe of PVC within the channel specifically under the waters to the hotel mahogany, where all kinds of pollutant load is recorded.
This study has almost unmasked the Lord Michel Gay Croisier, who has been presented as "a defender of the environment" but hotel owned health drain is contaminating the lagoon of Cabarete, thus causing serious environmental damage to that ecosystem by making it prudent authorities undertaken quickly and decided to stop this attack against nature.
Expected the Ministry of environment to take corrective measures after the result of this study conducted by doctors Liliana Betancourt Fern?ndez and Alejandro Herrera Moreno since he recalls that decree 847-09, the so-called Plan of tourist Territorial Planning of the municipal district Cabarete, located to the East of the town of Sosua, in the area of ecotourism, has recovered part of the lagoon and reforested the surroundings.
It was explained that suffered Cabarete lagoon near laguna Goleta and the caves in the surrounding area, is one of the main attractions of the Natural Monument El Choco which is above the rules, where the floating solids must be absent, were present in all channel for expertise now in accordance with the results of physical and chemical.
Therefore, in seasons 2, 3 and 4 of the aforementioned lagoon, everything is normal and appropriate to the extent that its waters are clean and transparent, however only in season 5, i.e. behind the hotel mahogany by where it exits the pipe with the waste, is highly contaminated with thousands of fecal coliforms.
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