The Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewage Corporation (CAASD) announced it is filing a lawsuit against Hormigones America SRL and its partners for causing a major breakdown of the 67-inch Valdesia – Santo Domingo pipeline that left 80 neighborhoods in the National District without potable water service. The CAASD has included Gabino Aroldo Ramos Guzmán, Victor Ramón Ramos Guzmán, Isaías Ramos Guzmán and Isaías Odalis Ramos Ferreira in the lawsuit.
The CAASD accuses the company of violating the General Law of Environment 64-00 that prohibits the extraction of sand, gravel, gravel and stones contrary to regulation 1315.
When CAASD identified the source of the breakdown, the company did not allow repair crews access to the property. The CAASD was forced to waste time securing a court order to enter and carry out the necessary repairs.
Alejandro Montás, director of the CAASD, criticized the extensive operation of the gravel extractors in the Manoguayabo area, near the rivers, because of the negative effects on the environment.
The Ministry of Environment has since ordered the shutdown of the Hormigones America operations after determining that they were operating without the required government environmental authorization, following a request received from the CAASD.
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El Nacional
21 February 2019