The Public-Private Trust for the Management of Solid Waste DO Sustainable, responded to the reports published by Listín Diario, which denounce the improvised open-air landfills installed in the Marcos A. Cabral canal and its sides, in Baní, Peravia province.
Through a letter sent by the representative of that entity, Priamo Ramírez, to the director of this medium, Miguel Franjul, the entity indicates that the Nizao Transfer Station, inaugurated last November, has not started its operations and that it is expected that with its entry into force the improvised landfills indicated in the report published in the printed edition of March 31 of this year will be eliminated.
They defend that they are currently in the process of forming the municipal trust that will allow “to comprehensively articulate the system of collection, transfer and final disposal of waste throughout the province.
In the letter, they explain that this process is in its final stage, so they plan to put an end to the sources of pollution that affect the canal in the short term.
“This step is essential to guarantee operational sustainability, the correct management of resources and the coordination between different actors in the system, in accordance with the provisions of Law 225-20. Currently this process is in its final stage, which will allow this infrastructure to operate in the short term and make decisive progress in the elimination of improvised landfills such as those indicated in your report,” they specify.
DO Sostenible is convinced that with the entry into operation of the project, which had an investment of RD$21,000,000.00, it will be possible to contribute to the reduction of pollution, protect the canal and strengthen a more efficient, orderly and sustainable waste management model.
Likewise, they urge local authorities, the private sector and citizens to continue working together, as well as to strengthen environmental education and the correct management of waste as pillars to achieve lasting changes.
Nizao transfer point
The Construction and Execution project of the Nizao Transfer Point was inaugurated on November 11, 2025 and is expected to directly benefit the Nizao municipality, as well as the communities of Santana, Catalina, Pizarrete, Palenque and Yaguate.
The infrastructure has a dumping platform for waste discharge, control booth, perimeter closure with cyclone mesh, bridge over the irrigation canal and maneuvering areas for collection and transfer trucks.
With its design that allows optimizing the transfer of waste to its final disposal, avoiding the proliferation of open-air landfills.
The problem exposed by the Listín
Listín Diario reported that the canal and its sides continue to be affected by garbage due to the improvised open-air landfills installed by the municipalities that surround it in almost its entire length, becoming a serious threat, not only for the canal, but for the entire surrounding environment.
The problem that affects this canal that irrigates more than 50 thousand tasks with its waters, from Las Barias, in the mountainous area where the Nizao River gives birth, passing through the Nizao sides and other towns to Las Calderas, southwest of the Peravia province.
To feed aqueducts, produce rice, food, vegetables, grains, fruits, condiments and other agricultural rubles, which go both to the local market, as well as to supermarkets and national plazas, but shameful landfills abound on its banks like the contaminated water that runs through the bed of this important aquifer.
