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After heavy rain of last night ,flooding at the level of Sea horse ranch
Was the same couple of weeks ago, publicos from Sosua towards Cabarete did not run until the water drained.
It will be interesting to see how much flooding there will be 2 years from now as all the projects in Cabarete and Sosua come online.
Unless they raise that two lane road, it is going to keep getting flooded. It is not that long of a stretch to raise but given that it is only two lanes and because it is in the DR, I wonder how long this would take.
The easier and cheaper solution is to put drainage under the road. A few culverts would go a long way to ensure safety.
Correct but logic doesn’t apply when the issue is infrastructure problems in the DR. A problem has to persist long enough to become a political hot potato. Once that focuses the government’s attention on the problem, the mad rush starts to rectify the problem. The Cangrejo bridge failure and replacement is a classic example. The DR1 thread on it is lengthy but it gives the reader a good sense of the DR way.
Culverts under DR roads in urban areas tend to become blocked with waste debris, specifically plastic water bottles. They get attention when flooding occurs but eventually become blocked again. A few residents at Sea Horse Ranch might have the ear of certain DR government officials. The problem may get a temporary fix sooner than later.
A lot of new residential, commercial, and resort development is planned for the North shore. This is just an omen of things to come.
Good insight Taylor. The science of hydrology, especially surface water flow, seems to be missing from the planning and development stages of DR infrastructure. The North Coast ain’t what it used to be when I started beating the roads there 20 years ago. As Joni Mitchell says,”You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”.
I do love this place and I have faith that they will eventually figure it out. It will be the build up towards them having to find a solution that will frustrating. For now I'm making changes in my personal life to reduce any time required in a car, collect more rain water for the dry months, and prepare for more flooding in the wet months.
They have a culvert there, but when it rains this much you could put 10 of them there and both sides would still be flooded..... raising the road would be a solution....
Raising the road would just move the problem to the next low-lying area, and you'd have the same problem in a different spot. Several culverts would move the water quickly and allow it to continue to drain while not covering the road.
Both would work i.e. raise the road and put culverts connecting both low-lying sides. But I don't know the geography that well. The locals also said 'the lake flooded' and sometimes refer to it as the lagoon. If true, the road has to move