Lake Enriquillo threatens houses in the surrounding area

The families of this town feel the effects of flooding from Lake Enriquillo almost under their feet, the chairs which sit and even in their beds.

The waters have progressively moved towards their homes, which currently are approximately half a kilometer from the flooding, situation that keeps them more than concerned.

The Enriquillo literally has invaded the edges of the poblado, which prevents its inhabitants to bury their relatives in the local cemetery, as with several picazos tombs are filled with water.

The same happens in the courtyards of the houses of these families, where neither sow nor the flowers that adorn their gardens, because salt water springs and fills the holes just made.

The Enriquillo lake waters have engulfed seven square kilometers Island kids, as well as completely La Islita and La Barbarita, which were two small islands close to the island kids, u000areported the administrator of the national Lake Enriquillo, Benito Hernández Naut Park. He added that it also submerged 25 cachones or sources of water and sulphurous space which were visited by tourists, but he stressed that the area has not lost its attractions.

On their side, the geologist, Osiris de Leon, reported that the Lake has expanded on the 125 square kilometres, so considered place early relocation of families who live in communities Cachón mouth, Las Baitoas, come to see and a part of Duvergé.

Emphasized that the increase in the waters of the Lake is the result of the flow that keep the springs in the area, among which highlighted Bariah Las and Las Marias.

Panic
"We are terrified, because here we have the land we producíamos where also food and our homes". "We already lost the pens and the larger, but also we are now almost homeless because this Lake to grow", u000asaid Mrs Donata Nova, 68 year-old, who lives in Boca de Cachón.

Stated that the situation of the Enriquillo Lake is killing the person slowly, after sweeping to victory with his way of life and now threatens to leave them on the street.

"We are starving." Here we do not find what to eat. "We only hope that the Government to remember us and send us food, but to deliver them House by House if all to achieve something", said Mr Francisco Díaz Florián.

El lago Enriquillo buried a section of the road that connects mouth Cachón with Jimaní, which is why the authorities built a shortcut to maintain the flow vehicular.

While the road which connects the municipalities Jimaní and Duvergé is about to be taken by the Lake, which crossed the road below creating a lagoon to the end

Agricultural land remaining in mouth Cachón, in the last four weeks the floods caught them and u000ain these spaces both on the road, have begun to be visited by crocodiles.

The Ministry of agriculture completed work in 37 thousand tasks of land both in the Espartillar mouth Cachón, where in the first quarter of the year 2012 the Government recorded at an early stage to the beneficiaries.

The human settlements affected
of human settlements located in "The return of Lake", the mouth Cachón community is the most affected by its geographical location, which is 28 meters below the sea level.

However the inhabitants of the carnations, come and see, Los Ríos, Postrelrío and Bartholomew, both of the Independencia province as Bahoruco, remain in a State of uncertainty after losing their means of production.

Farmers and ranchers are waiting to begin the delivery of parcels that enables the Ministry of agriculture to relaunch the process of u000aproduction.

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