{"id":487789,"date":"2025-10-22T18:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/authorities-assure-that-the-spill-from-the-sabaneta-dam-remains-under-control-and-without-risk-to-the-population\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:31:38","slug":"authorities-assure-that-the-spill-from-the-sabaneta-dam-remains-under-control-and-without-risk-to-the-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/authorities-assure-that-the-spill-from-the-sabaneta-dam-remains-under-control-and-without-risk-to-the-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities assure that the spill from the Sabaneta dam remains under control and without risk to the population"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong> Authorities confirmed that the current discharge from the Sabaneta dam, in San Juan, is proceeding normally and does not pose any danger to nearby communities. The announcement was made within the framework of the constant monitoring of the effects of Tropical Storm Melissa, where it was highlighted that <strong>all the country&#8217;s dams are operating under control<\/strong>.\n\nThe <strong>Dam and Reservoir Operations Committee (COPRE)<\/strong> continues in permanent session, monitoring the behavior of national water systems.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Mantienen suspensi\u00f3n de docencia y labores en provincias bajo alerta roja por tormenta Melissa\">http:\/\/Mantienen suspensi\u00f3n de docencia y labores en provincias bajo alerta roja por tormenta Melissa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nDuring a meeting headed by the administrator of <strong>EGEHID<\/strong>, engineer <strong>Rafael Salazar<\/strong>, and the director of <strong>INDRHI<\/strong>, engineer <strong>Olmedo Caba<\/strong>, it was explained that the Sabaneta spill responds to normal conditions within the cyclonic season.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We are talking about discharges of between 12 and 13 cubic meters per second, perfectly manageable,&#8221; both officials pointed out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThey also highlighted that the current floods are being used positively, as the spilled water flows towards the Yaque del Sur River and is contained by the <strong>Monte Grande dam<\/strong>, which has accumulated more than <strong>40 million cubic meters of water in recent weeks<\/strong>.\n\nThat retention, they indicated, prevents flooding in communities of Bahoruco and Barahona, in addition to strengthening the supply of drinking water and agricultural irrigation.\n\nEngineer <strong>Rafael Salazar<\/strong> assured that there is no cause for concern, emphasizing that <strong>\u201ceverything is under control\u201d<\/strong> and that the water channels are safely managed by the responsible organizations.\n\nThe meeting was also attended by engineers <strong>M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez<\/strong> and <strong>Mart\u00edn Ram\u00edrez<\/strong>, from EGEHID, along with representatives from <strong>COPRE<\/strong>, <strong>INDOMET<\/strong>, <strong>Ministry of Agriculture<\/strong> and <strong>INAPA<\/strong>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- Authorities confirmed that the current discharge from the Sabaneta dam, in San Juan, is proceeding normally and does not pose any danger to nearby communities. The announcement was made within the framework of the constant monitoring of the effects of Tropical Storm Melissa, where it was highlighted that all the country&#8217;s dams are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":487790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[42674,42686],"class_list":["post-487789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-melissa-storm","tag-sabaneta-dam"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22Tz","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/presa.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/presa.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}