Recovery of ravaged Dominican rivers starts in a few weeks

SANTO DOMINGO. – The recovery of the Nizao River basin will start in the next few weeks, paid for by the companies which extract aggregates in that zone, said Environment minister Omar Ramirez on Tuesday. "They must recover it because it it’s an obligation of the sector which has lived off the extraction of materials.” He said in one week Environment will manage brigades paid by the companies, to work and recover those areas and once the river’s level is reestablished the companies have 90 days to begin dismantling their machinery. He said the lack of a superficial current causes confusion in the Nizao, where only the water table remains. The official said the aggregate associations of the Nizao, Yuna and North Yaque rivers have been legally notified of the measure.