The director of the Dominican Port Authority Victor Gomez Casanova said yesterday that the leading contributing factor to the contamination of the Ozama River is the untreated waste from residential areas that is carried by creeks that that empty into the Ozama River. He said treatment of this waste is more important than the dismantling of the shipyards and ship scrapyards that operated in the river.
He said the Port Authority is working together with the Ministry of the Environment and other institutions to deal with the situation.
As part of the cleanup of the Ozama and the Isabela Rivers, the government has announced the installation of a water treatment plant for the northern part of Santo Domingo.
