Government will deliver Mirador Norte / La Zurza Treatment Plant this February 28 CAASD guarantees that the work will benefit the health of almost half a million people

Thursday, 06 February 2020

Santo Domingo.- The general director of the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewerage Corporation (CAASD), architect Alejandro Montás, reported that the Ozama River Wastewater Treatment Plant (Mirador Norte / La Zurza) built by the government of President Danilo Medina will be inaugurated on February 28.

It is a work that will benefit the preventive health of 450,000 people, while contributing to the ecological rescue of the Isabela and Ozama rivers.

"This turnkey project, in which the Government has invested US $ 120 million, will impact 450,000 people in 30 neighborhoods of the National District and the Santo Domingo Norte municipality, it is one of the works with the greatest impact in the capital because it is the The most important preventive hospital in the country. As a result of this investment, this work will contribute to the sanitation of the wastewater generated in the District, "said Montás.

The official reiterated that this treatment plant is one of the most important works of the government of President Medina and it will deliver 27 million gallons of already purified wastewater to the Ozama and Isabela rivers completely sanitized, as a clean flow , and that it will also produce significant volumes of organic compost to be used in agriculture.

Montás pointed out that it is a plant that will help solve the environmental problems of various communities in Greater Santo Domingo.

He added that within the benefited sectors will be: La Zurza, La Agustina, La Fe expansion, Jardines del Norte, San Juan Bosco, Villa Consuelo, Capotillo, Villa Juana, Sabana Perdida, Miraflores expansion, April 24 neighborhood, Simón Bolívar and many others more.

These data were offered by Alejandro Montás when he participated as an interviewee in the radio program El Gobierno de la Mañana, which is broadcast on station Z101.

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