Floods due to rains are recorded everywhere in Puerto Plata
PUERTO PLATA.- The rains that have been recorded since Saturday night have caused urban flooding in sectors of the main municipality of San Felipe de Puerto Plata and other communities in this.
From Monday noon, in different areas of this city, there have been floods of roads and homes, such as the widening sectors Dubeau (Los Callejones), La Viara, West Beach, Nuevo Renacer (Aguas Negras), Barrio Haiti, Las Mercedes, Barrio Puerto Rico, and Las Flores.
The floods are caused by the rains that have overflowed the creeks El Violón, Los Domínguez, Los Mameyes and several ravines that cross the urban part of this town, to which is added the obstruction of storm drainage by garbage and sediments dragged by sewage water.
The vehicular traffic was stunted by the large amount of water that covered several sections of the Manolo Tavárez Justo avenues (in front of the nursing home), Guancho Escaño that joins the two local sea docks, President Caamaño (former Colon) and Luis Geneva.
Also, in the Historic Center, several streets registered floods such as: Camino Real, March 30, Luis Espinosa and Duarte, and other roads that were flooded are Antera Mota, José Del Carmen Ariza, and Antigua Vía Férrea.
“It is a pity that due to the lack of vision from our municipal authorities, Puerto Plata on rainy days becomes a Venice but in the Caribbean,” the young university student Wilmer Joel Hernández expressed on Facebook blaming the flooding to the lack of forecast by the local City Council.
In front of the command of the Navy of the Dominican Republic (Navy), a kind of Olympic pool was created since the drains that are in that area were supposedly blocked by the construction work of a tourist terminal in the local bay.
Volunteers of the Civil Defense and relief agency Rescue Amber, proceeded to evacuate citizens residing in places vulnerable to landslides, also removed fallen trees and debris that covered the drains in the tracks.
The communicator Wellington de Jesús Martínez reported that in the municipality of Sosúa several communities have been held incommunicado after the overflow of Bella Vista and a ravine that crosses the Maranatha sector.
Similarly, rainfall overflowed rivers, streams, and ravines in Imbert, Maimon, Yánica Arriba, Montellano, Cabarete, and Sabaneta de Yánica causing mild flooding in some areas of those communities.
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