El Caribe attributes the recent collapse of a discharge pipe, which now hangs over the streets below, to a lack of maintenance of the drainage system. The overpass system, inaugurated at the end of the former PLD government in 2000, was built at a cost of RD$649 million (and an exchange rate of RD$17 to US$1). The failure of the drainage system produces large pools of water when it rains and, in some places, there is vegetation growing in the pipes. The worst spot is located at the Josefa Brea and 27 of February intersection, where the discharge tubing broke, injuring one driver, and now hangs above the roadway.