{"id":105201,"date":"2017-10-18T15:25:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=105201"},"modified":"2017-10-18T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T19:25:15","slug":"villa-altagracia-city-government-fined-for-trash-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/10\/18\/villa-altagracia-city-government-fined-for-trash-dump\/","title":{"rendered":"Villa Altagracia city government fined for trash dump"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_97374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97374\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97374\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Ministerio--300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ministry of Environment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ministry of Environment fined the city government of Villa Altagracia with RD$2,302,875 for establishing a trash dump without minimal conditions. \u201cIt is not admissible that situations such as this continue in the country, that of an open sky garbage dumps without treatment for residual waters, without equipment, without minimal conditions to operate, threatening the health of the people,\u201d said Environment Minister Francisco Dom\u00ednguez Brito, in a Ministry of Environment press release.<\/p>\n<p>The Villa Altagracia trash dump is located less than 10 meters from Duarte Highway and causes visual and atmospheric contamination, says the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Resolution DJ-RAS-4-2017-0266 gives the city government of Villa Altagracia 60 days to close the dump and start operations at a controlled trash dump that is under construction following Ministry of Environment guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ambiente.gob.do\/medio-ambiente-multa-2-3-millones-ayuntamiento-villa-altagracia-vertedero\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Environment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18 October 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Environment fined the city government of Villa Altagracia with RD$2,302,875 for establishing a trash dump without minimal conditions. \u201cIt is not admissible that situations such as this continue in the country, that of an open sky garbage dumps without treatment for residual waters, without equipment, without minimal conditions to operate, threatening the health &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/10\/18\/villa-altagracia-city-government-fined-for-trash-dump\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}