MARTIIN PENHA THE INSIDE/OUT OF PROYECTO ENLACE/G8

REVISITED EDITION

the scam continues...
here is the latest on
this paradigmatic ecological
disaster to happen thanks to the authorities
and people without credentials,
expertise on the issues:
From el Nuevo Dia
October 15

La avaricia, estupidez de los tarugos que gobiernan y sus complices no se detiene. Lo primero que habria que hacer rigurosamente, antes de hablar/escribir/exigir dragado de sedimento contaminado/contaminante, es eliminar rigurosamente el descargue de aguas fecales en el canho.
http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/canomartinpenaunaprioridadparaalcaldesadesanjuan-2039219/

Otra noticia que salio, respecto a este desastre ecologico que se avecina en manos de gente sin peritaje e inescrupulosa.

http://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/apoyoaldragadodelcanomartinpena-2112368/

Here below, the most competent analysis
on the issues, thanks to Robert Beato.
 

http://alcantarillaalquimica.blogspot.com/2013/03/312-anotaciones-sobre-el-desarrollo-de.html

 

I HAVE BEEN trekking through out the laberinth streets of Canho Martin Penha in every possible direction since we moved to Santurce, five years ago. WHAT keeps me interested is the flora/fauna, with a wide variety of the abandoned residences and those in living conditions, as a bonus. 

However, when one considers the wild environmental destruction to the endemic flora and fauna  that has taken place for the last four decades in this area--as in Puerto Rico and territories as a whole--, it is amazing to observe how much of the original vegetation/nature still stands: trees, bushes, vines, ground covers, grasses and plants. (1)

This makes Martin Penha an unique, picturesque habitat for flora, birds, reptiles and pollinators still around. All are destined to disappear, their habitats substituted with concrete/asphalt, (the proposed sterile water plaza on page 53 of the link below, is evidence), the silly palm trees and turf, as anyjuan could notice in the right side to the bridge across El Mercantil and the curved designed bridge built on top of Cantera to hide the residences from curious tourists in their vehicles of choice.

These long walks , observations, studying, researching the issues, leave no doubts in my mind, the dark  intention$ of the dredging, will screw up life for humans and nature without any hope.  

My suspicions have been confirmed a couple of days ago after reading the Caribbean Business article by Dennis Costa and the interview to Lyvia Rodriguez del Valle, director.

 http://www.caribbeanbusinesspr.com/prnt_ed/martin-pena-channel-a-dream-deferred-8200.html      (1)
Check the header photo. That green canopy is what I am talking about, all to be destroyed!

The 3,000 words article mentions ideas/concepts like: development, financial engineering, protection of waterways,
environmental impact, mainly public recreation area (680 millions), 100 feet wide, ten feet deep,
catastrophic environmental pollution with 2 million fecal coliforms per 100,000 milliliters when the federal limits are 200!

I am not going to chew/digest the article. I do suggest the reading, reach your own opinion.
One thing is pertinent. Lyvia Rodriguez speaks/talks just like a real estate broker, not a Mother Theresa of Calcuta, she sounds more
more like a Bernie Maddox, what is relevant to her, accomplices/associates involved with this big scam rip off is: increased property values after the dredging is done, that is that!

To finish I would ask the folloving:

1.  Could the channel be reduced by 50 feet wide?
After all I do not know many islanders with vessels to travel around in search of alcapurrias, cod fish fritters with Medallas, the kind of tourism
one would expectd in those waterways.

2.  Where do they plant to deposit the tons of contaminated sediment from Canho Martin Penha.
That is the biggest issue afer the dredging or not?

3.  Where is the botanical inventory/catalog of the local flora and fauna to develop a serious, rigorous conservation plan?  Pretty please with sugar on top, do not become another Alberto Areces Mallea and Gabriela Ocampo, with those two of a kind in Puerto Rico's history of environmental destruction is enough.
http://antigonumcajaneveningpost.blogspot.com/2011_06_01_archive.html