What was once declared a tourist paradise, today resembles an open-air dump. It’s about the beach The Gringosa natural space in the municipality Haina Bajos.
Within the framework of World Oceans Daywhich was commemorated this Saturday, June 6, this landscape bows down to pollution.
The first thing that stands out is not the blue of the sea, but the synthetic shine of the amount of materials and waste that do not belong there.
Meanwhile, the coastline, where the sand should merge cleanly with the water, looks buried under human waste.
Plastic and glass bottles live on Haina beach.
Crushed soda bottles, shampoo containers discolored by the sun, packaging, cardboard, supermarket bags tangled in sticks and tree branches are everything that lives on the beach today.
Apart from the lilacs and other solid waste that is mixed between millions of small pieces of plastic, between those worn-out glasses, bottles and straws. Rusty aluminum cans, cigarettes stuck in the sand and old, mismatched and half-buried shoes also take over the landscape.
As you approach the sand, Daily List He noted the loss of purity on the beach and the turbidity in the water of its waves.
“Los Gringos lacks a plan for its cleanup”
By consulting Victor Manuel Baezpresident of the Council for the Comprehensive Development of Haina (Codinha), about that Haina paradise converted into a landfill, pointed out that the beach requires stable conditioning directed by the Government.
“Gringo beach, like almost all the beaches in the country, lacks an adequate maintenance and cleaning plan or program, and it turns out that with the sargassum that exists now, the dirt on the beaches is multiplied; so it is necessary for the city council, the Ministry of TourismPublic Works and Ministry of Sports “They are in charge of cleaning the beaches, especially Haina,” declared Báez.
Plastics contaminate Los Gringos beach in the Bajos de Haina municipality.
The considered defender of the municipality denounced that, in addition to being dirty, the beach is intervened with tanks that contain substances toxic to the health of the residents.
“We have intervened on this beach with some tanks that have toxic substances that are harmful to human health and God forbid that one day a tank of that explodes, because we are all going to suffer,” he pointed out.
Beaches of the country covered by sargassum
In recent days, a dense patch of sargassum has been recorded covering the waters of the main beaches of the Dominican Republic.
This is how what used to be a landscape of turquoise waters has been transformed into an immense floating carpet of brown and gold seaweed intertwined with each other.
Sargassum accumulation on a beach in the eastern region. This natural phenomenon generates a strong putrid smell as it enters the decomposition process after several days on the shore.
Between the coming and going of the waves, the sargassum suffocates the coasts. While on the shore, the accumulation of this natural phenomenon has already formed mountains that give off a putrid smell, due to its decomposition.
From Boca Chica, Guayacaneshas extended to Santo Domingo Malecónaffecting tourism due to the decrease in visitors and bathers, as well as business sales.
