Senator Adriano Sánchez Roa (PLD-Elías Piña) has informed that the funds for feasibility studies and the subsequent construction of the Artibonite hydroelectric plant in Pedro Santana, a border town in Elías Piña province on the border with Haiti, have been included in the 2018 general budget at the initiative of President Danilo Medina.
Senator Sánchez Roa says that the project will also benefit nearby Bánica. The area will be transformed when hundreds of thousands of hectares of land get access to irrigation water from the Joca and Tocino rivers.
In a statement, the senator explained that the Artibonito hydroelectric plant will produce energy for an estimated value of RD$280 million per month and reduce the sediment of the tributaries.
The Artibonito is the longest river in Haiti and the island of Hispaniola. It rises in the Cordillera Central in the Dominican Republic at an altitude of 1,000 meters west of of Burende (province of La Vega) and travels 320 km, before flowing into the Gulf of Gonâve at the village of Grande-Saline in Haiti.
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Haiti Libre
10 January 2018
