{"id":243310,"date":"2025-10-29T06:52:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=243310"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:22:41","slug":"solutions-proposed-for-urban-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/10\/29\/solutions-proposed-for-urban-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Solutions proposed for urban flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Silvio Dur\u00e1n \/ Diario 55<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Weak institutions and lack of compliance with local laws has given way to overconstruction and planting of cement where before there were green areas that facilitated drainage. This is a pattern nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk shows are again looking into the drainage issue after the weeklong rains of Melissa flooded the country. News of the devastation in Jamaica is a reminder that the Dominican Republic is in the track of hurricanes, too. The Abinader administration chose to practically shut down the country for four days as a preventive measure causing billions in economic losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Esta Noche con Mariasela hosted a panel on Tuesday, 28 October 2025 that clearly stated that the National District should not flood because it is a city built on ground terraces facing the Caribbean Sea. Likewise, it is a city surrounded by rivers and gullies, enabling natural drainage. The problem has been concrete high rises and commercial entities have been erected in every available space, impeding the natural drainage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking on the show, architect Hamlet Ota\u00f1ez, former director of the Santiago water corporation, urged small solutions be installed to put the drainage back into the cities in a sustainable green way. He stressed it is not necessary to await a mega government project such as would be the installation of new drainage system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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29 October 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weak institutions and lack of compliance with local laws has given way to overconstruction and planting of cement where before there were green areas that facilitated drainage. This is a pattern nationwide. Talk shows are again looking into the drainage issue after the weeklong rains of Melissa flooded the country. News of the devastation in … <\/p>\n

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