The director general of the Santiago Water and Sewage Corporation (Coraasan), Silvio Duran inaugurated a pumping station to treat sewage in Arroyo Hondo, in the southern part of the city yesterday, 1 March 2017. This represents a major effort by Coraasan to clean up the Yaque River by treating some 600,000 gallons of water a day in this first phase.
When the entire project is completed the pumping stations will gather 3.4 million gallons a day and provide water treatment that will contribute greatly to bringing aquatic life back to the river.
The huge investment includes more than half a kilometer of 20-inch piping that will take the waters to the treatment plant in Rafey.
Some 63,000 inhabitants of the city will benefit from the decontamination of the creeks and streams in their neighborhoods. Several neighborhood groups were at the inauguration and applauded this first step in the cleanup of what is perhaps the nation’s most important river.
2 March 2017
