Two days after Hurricane Sandy moved on from the country, 18,858 people are still displaced, some four thousand less than on Saturday. An Emergency Operations Center (COE) report issued yesterday, Sunday 28 October, says that 4,983 houses had been affected and 71 communities were cut off. Most of the isolated communities, 51, were in the province of Azua. Nevertheless, it was the municipality of Santo Domingo East where most people were forced to move to emergency shelters, 720. Given this situation, the COE has maintained its alerts in 10 provinces and the National District. Yellow Alerts are in place for the provinces of Duarte (San Francisco de Macoris), Monte Plate, Peravia (Bani), San Juan de la Maguana, Santo Domingo, Azua, San Jose de Ocoa and the National District. Sanchez Ramirez (Cotui), San Cristobal and Barahona are under green alert.
The Santo Domingo Water and Sewer Corporation (CAASD) announced yesterday that 90% of their aqueducts are fixed and working, including the intakes at Mana and Duey and most of the wells at Brujuelas, La Joya and La Isabela that were out of service. In the meantime about a quarter (88) of the National Institute of Drinking Water (Inapa) aqueducts were out of service.
In San Cristobal, Peravia (Bani), Monte Plata and San Jose de Ocoa, a total of 54 aqueducts were out of service, while in the provinces of Azua, San Juan and Elias Pina they reported 21 units out of service. In Barahona, Pedernales and Independencia nine systems were damaged.