According to the president of Santo Domingo Re-Development, Eulogio Santaella, soil extracted for the construction of the Metro could be used as landfill for the artificial island, as reported in Diario Libre. The project proposes the extension of the city of Santo Domingo towards the sea, from Winston Churchill Avenue to the breakwater near the obelisk on the corner of Angel Guerrero and George Washington Avenue with a land extension of no less than one million square meters. A new road will join the island with the southern part of Santo Domingo. Also projected are the filling and development of the Malecon coastline, 68 million cubic meters of dredging, 9 kilometers of covering, a breakwater, an industrial zone, a multi-use port and loading area. Local promoters of the project met yesterday with the President of the Senate Permanent Finance and Contract Commission, Cesar Diaz Filpo, who announced that new public hearings for this project would be held on 16 November 2005. Also present at the meeting were Senators Tommy Duran, Jose Tomas Perez, Fausto Lopez Solis, Miguel Seijas, Pedro A. Luna, and Roberto Rodriguez, as well as Minister without Portfolio Eduardo Selman, who is the government liaison with the project promoters.
Listin Diario reports that Selman assured the lawmakers that the entire southern coast of Santo Domingo will be totally renewed by the project whereas Senator Perez questioned the future responsibility of the Dominican state to provide the construction material to be used as landfill in the project.