Voices from the Enriquillo Region demand that the authorities reactivate work on the Multiple Great Mountain Dam Project.
The director general of the UASD-Barahona site, Manuel Antonio de la Cruz Fernández, has expressed concern about the project being halted; the rector of the Cathedral Our Lady of the Rosary, Angel Caves; the senator Josep of the Saviñón Castle: the ex- candidate to deputy Carlos Garci’a, and the agricultural leader Manuel Perez (Manuel Lemba).
They agree on the need for the Government, which is chaired by President Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona, for an explanation to the region of the reasons why the project called “the Southwest Metro” was paralyzed.
The Multiple Great Mountain Dam Project (PMPM), led by the Andrade Gutiérrez Consortium, is still paralyzed, although yesterday (Tuesday) work was done on one of the points, but it had no impact, entrust a source to daily Listín, at the head of the protection of his identity.
The voices that demand the work
Father Cuevas is concerned about the work stoppage and calls on President Abinader to catch up with the payment to the contractors for the work, until they resume work again.
“All of this worries us because it means a lot to our southern area, the Great Mountain Dam. We raise our voices, we sound the alarm for work to resume,” he said.
He stated that paralyzing the project is a “dam” that slows down the development of this area, which for decades claims to build the important work that will positively impact agriculture, as well as contain the fury of nature each cyclonic season.
In the budget
The senator for this southern province, Josep de el Castell Saviñón, Demanded that President Lluís Abinader and the director of the National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI), Olmedo Caba, explain the reasons why the Muntanya Gran project was stopped.
From Castell Saviñón, who made the claim at the end of a shift in this Tuesday’s session of the Senate of the Republic, asked for the situation to be explained, after the information from Listín Diari last Saturday that Great Mountain was slowed down again due to lack of resources.
He recalled that in this year’s General State Budget Congress approved allocating resources to complete the work, plus 250 million General Fund of the Nation, as well as the loan approved by the Central American Investment Bank CABEI .
De el Castell Saviñón states that the hard-earned money approved to complete the work on the Great Mountain Dam gives the sum of 4,293,000, “which is what this year’s budget for the project provides.”
Life and hope
The teacher Manuel Antonio De la Cruz Fernández He said that given the social and economic impact that the Great Mountain Press, the main academy of the highest level in the region, is for the region, he asked President Abinader to use his leadership to resume the work of the ‘important project.
De la Cruz Fernández said that Monte Grande means “life and hope” for the provinces that make up the Enriquillo Region, As it has a positive impact on the economic, social, environmental, above all, -he points out- will contain the fury of nature every cyclonic season that destroys lives and properties, mainly in communities located in the lower basin of the South Yaque River.
They bury hope
Carlos García, the last candidate for deputy for the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), said that the hope of those who live in the Enriquillo Region “is being buried”, with the halting of work on the Great Mountain Dam.
“The paralysis is a sign of the collapse of the hope of the inhabitants of this region, to see the dream of decades become a reality, to achieve better living standards with the construction of the dam,” said the former director regional of the Ministry of Public Works.
agricultural producers
Manuel Pérez (Manuel Lemba), an agricultural producer in the area and part of the organizations in the region demanding that the Great Mountain dam be completed, said that the concern is in the line that there is enough water to irrigate by gravity of the farmland and cope with times of drought.