Twenty One Million Dollars Earmarked to Clean Up 7 Beaches
The Dominican Secretary of State for Tourism has announced that in February the second phase of a beach rehabilitation plan will get underway in the provinces of San Cristobal, Barahona and Montecristi with a $21 million investment.
In 2006, the beaches in Juan Dolio, San Pedro de Macorís, Long Beach, Cabarete and Playa Dorada in Puerto Plata were rehabilitated. This second phase seeks “to provide the communities near the public beaches with adequate conditions to be able to development tourism and real estate endeavors in these regions,” said Radhamés Martínez, technical undersecretary, in a bulletin sent by the Secretariat of Tourism.
A total of seven beaches are to be included in this upcoming project: Palenque and Najayo, in San Cristóbal; San Rafael and Quemaíto, in Barahona; Caleta, in La Romana, and the beaches of the Costa Verde and Juan de Bolaños in Montecristi.
The rehabilitation project of these seven beaches will take between 45 and 60 days, during which time around a million cubic meters of sand will be dumped along the shores. The results of the sand replacement are expected to last approximately five years as the wind and waves will, little by little, carry the sand out to sea once again.
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