2011: ups and downs in the services

If something characterized the so-called Holy great Sunday in the past year was garbage. Clusters of waste that captured streets in neighborhoods and residential year-round found its peak in the summer, when the access roads to the Duchess landfill collapsed by the rain.

The situation highlighted the uncertainty with which they handle the cabildos, faced problems with the collection of waste, throughout the year but with the collapse in the solid waste reception system were highlighted above all the country.

Rains, and then a leak in a pipe of water, were the triggers so that the next to Joaquín Balaguer Airport Road collapsed, putting the big Santo Domingo at the gates of a health emergency.

This road joined the deteriorated road Los Casabes, situation which prevented access to the largest landfill in the country.

The situation u000acarried to the mayors of the big Santo Domingo unify and ask President Leonel Fernandez the reconstruction of the road of Los Casabes, request that was accepted by the agent. The Ministry of public works is working in the repair of the road and it was announced that it will be opened at the beginning of the new year. The institution shall effect to rehabilitate, until the conclusion of the above-mentioned works, next to the airport the Higu¨ero path

The garbage from the summer of 2011 crisis could only be compared with the period may-August 2002, when the political context in that snapshot the so-called Holy great Sunday produced a similar situation. At that time the capital had been divided politically and they lived the last 3 months of management of the chapter which provided services to now seven municipalities of the Santo Domingo province and the National District.

Roberto Salcedo, Mayor of the Distrito Nacional, explained to the u000acrisis that mainstreaming is the responsibility of the landfill, and assured that the Councils have no disadvantages at the time of collecting the waste produced by citizenship.

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