According to a report in El Caribe, the prosecutor for the Ministry of Environment has received 5,000 complaints in the first five months of 2004, most from middle and upper income segments of society. Many of the letters sent dealt with the great number of individual, private generators that belch out smoke and noise. Other sources of complaints were due to noise pollution generated by the speakers located at the ?colmadones? (corner markets), from the metal-working shops or the neighbors? radios turned too high. Community groups and neighborhood associations are the principle initiators of the grievances. Another source of problems is the illegal felling of trees, including the cutting of century-old mahogany and oak trees in the park at Villa Mella. Objections regarding water contamination abound in the low income neighborhoods of La Fe, Villa Juana, Villas Agricolas and Villa Consuelo. Jose Trinidad Sena, the ministry?s prosecutor, said that RD$40 million in fines is levied against the transgressors of the rules annually.