Yes, that hill removal across the street was one of the biggest acts of vandalism seen here.Is this a rhetorical question ?
I saw some progress but only God knows whether they will be done in 2 years. The hill they dug up across the new construction, they seem to have given up on it. I posted some photos a few weeks ago in this thread
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I always thought it was going to be a parking lot with a walking bridge over the highway.. That was the guess I am sticking with.
That reef started to come back to life during COVID. Amazing what a few months of no boat traffic or waste water runoff can accomplish. Wonder if they are installing any sort of waste water treatment for the new plazas?
I don't think there is any sewer system in the area, other perhaps a set of pipes that drain directly to the ocean, so septic would be the only possibility. Please correct me if I am wrong. I know where I am in Cabarete there was talk of putting in a sewer system and then pumping the waste westward and up hill past Encuentro to some sewage treatment area that never came to be.
Another shop owner's perspecitve who is near but not on Sosua beach, back when this was written the plans were for 3 plazas, but the center one will no longer be built. It remains to be seen if the two remaining two plazas will ever be finished.
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Sosua Beach Closure - What's Really Going On
Sosua Beach Closure - what's really going on. Don't believe the rumours. Listen to a voice of reason in what can be a very confusing place.
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FWIW, that post is over 2 years old.Another shop owner's perspecitve who is near but not on Sosua beach, back when this was written the plans were for 3 plazas, but the center one will no longer be built. It remains to be seen if the two remaining two plazas will ever be finished.
Sosua Beach Closure - What's Really Going On
Sosua Beach Closure - what's really going on. Don't believe the rumours. Listen to a voice of reason in what can be a very confusing place.
Indeed it is, but the only real change was going from 3 plazas to 2 plazas. Everything else appears spot on. It seems like the plazas have been under way for even longer...
If I remember correctly, the third plaza was a proposal from the beach association. I doubt whether it was ever in the government plans.
It was never planned originally. When Pres. Abinader came to the beach to receive the deeds, there were 2 parcels deeded to the town, one at each end of the beach. The third plaza was someone's pipe dream.
I was in Sosua Monday and Tuesday of this week.
Both nights we had a ton of rain. This morning I
walked down the beach from El Batey over to Charamicos
to hop on a bus back down here to Santiago and
I was surprised by what I saw.
It appears when you remove most of the trees along
with the roots which would normally absorb most
of the rain water, you end up with erosion, in this case
a lot of erosion. Never have I seen it this bad.
Both nights we had a ton of rain. This morning I
walked down the beach from El Batey over to Charamicos
to hop on a bus back down here to Santiago and
I was surprised by what I saw.
It appears when you remove most of the trees along
with the roots which would normally absorb most
of the rain water, you end up with erosion, in this case
a lot of erosion. Never have I seen it this bad.
The land for the 2 plazas had many trees which were removed before construction could begin. Both plots are on the slope between the beach and highway.
That is because that is where the votes are. Makes perfect sense when you realize that. The North Coast is the bastard child of the DR.
The government loves AI resorts and Cruise ports as well. Big revenue from them. The North Coast? Not so much outside the cruise ports in POP.
Will they ever finish the work on Sosua Beach? Not at the rate it is going.
Just about everything said to the squatters was to placate them. The might have had a third plaza in revised plans, but then I think the land owners that donated the land for the two plazas decided against it, just a guess. Now the entrance in the middle will go away. The smart venders took the payout and won't look back.
Didn't see any bull dozers however I did see a ton of trash and debris where some of those shacks once stood that had yet to be collected, which if not properly disposed of will eventually just wash out into Sosua Bay.
I'm curious.
How do they plan to prevent landsides in the future now that most of the trees on the Charamicos side have been removed?