The director of the Santo Domingo Water Corporation (CAASD), architect Alejandro Montás announced the start of a project to recondition the gully that flows through the National Botanical Gardens located in northern Santo Domingo. Ricardo García, director of the Botanical Gardens, highlighted the importance of improving the structure given the large number of visitors to the Botanical Gardens. García explained that the gully had been carrying untreated sewage and surface water from the low-income communities around the gardens, bringing concerns for the health of the visitors to the gardens.
Montás of the CAASD explained that the works include the installation of an area for the transferring of aquatic flora, conditioning of the access points to the equipment used for cleaning, construction of cofferdam (elements that are used to channel water flows) for the diversion of the so-called Gran Cañada that passes through the Botanical Gardens. He said debris and other material would be diverted through the use of new dams and installation of a 12-inch pipeline and surface regulators.
“With the renovation of the Gran Cañada, the splendor that it had in its beginnings will be recovered, taking advantage of its conditions for conservation, research and environmental education and becoming a sanctuary for the fauna and flora of the area,” said the director of the National Botanical Gardens.
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El Nuevo Diario
Diario Libre
7 March 2018
