{"id":137687,"date":"2020-03-12T12:54:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=137687"},"modified":"2020-03-12T15:26:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T15:26:29","slug":"rains-fill-reservoirs-good-news-for-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/12\/rains-fill-reservoirs-good-news-for-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Rains fill reservoirs; good news for farming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Presa-Tavera-Diario-Libre-e1543932040769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119533\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Adequate water levels are now restored at most of the 35 dams in the country, announced Olgo Fern\u00e1ndez, director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI), in a Diario Libre interview. &#8220;We have had two weather systems that have brought heavy rains that have improved the phreatic level of soils, leaving these saturated,&#8221; he said. He said the water levels at the Rincon, Hatillo, Tavera, Monci\u00f3n, Sabana Yegua and Sabaneta dams are again acceptable after months of drought. He said the rains are timely and forecast a good year if these continue. He said that April, May and June are months with usually an acceptable amount of rain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forecast is for heavy rains to continue on Thursday, 12 March 2020 as a frontal system crosses the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/ciudad\/lluvias-aumentan-embalses-de-la-mayoria-de-las-presas-NK17595181\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 March 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adequate water levels are now restored at most of the 35 dams in the country, announced Olgo Fern\u00e1ndez, director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI), in a Diario Libre interview. &#8220;We have had two weather systems that have brought heavy rains that have improved the phreatic level of soils, leaving these saturated,&#8221; he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/03\/12\/rains-fill-reservoirs-good-news-for-farming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137687"}],"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=137687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137698,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137687\/revisions\/137698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}