Sewage!!!!!!!! - Page 3

jrhartley · #21 10-13-2008, 12:51 PM

I dont think you will find eternal summer in Bulgaria,Turkey,Portugal,Cyprus,Croatia or Tunisia
I'm not sure about the other places.....you will find a lot of litter and prostitution (they line the roads as you enter the towns) in Bulgaria but better roads than here

catcherintherye · #22 10-13-2008, 01:15 PM

JR, does anything you are saying detract from AK's position? I don't believe so. AK is simply saying, this is abeautiful island with many advantages, so let's work together to ensure those advantages remain intact.

I personally don't see anything wrong with that suggestion. In fact I think it makes a lot of sense. Things have a habit of changing for the worse without the intervention of people who care about those things.

In short, I have some difficulty understanding what your point is. For someone who usually has an understanding that not everything is either "black or white", nor "for or against", you seem to be mistaking constructive attention for senseless criticism. AK clearly loves it here, and he is doing his part in trying to keep it beautiful.

CFA123 · #23 10-13-2008, 03:28 PM

AK,
I mis-interpreted your intent in the earlier post.

pkaide1 · #24 10-13-2008, 04:42 PM

In respect to this topic, I have seen in some Dominicans neighborhood that some people who can afford it, build a whole until they found water or a “Furnia” and guess what that is where ****, and everything else goes for the whole family. This is a big practice in the whole country, especially in the east side of the island. Now that make me wonder, are underground string contaminated mmmmmm!

Chip · #25 10-13-2008, 04:53 PM

There are two types of sewage systems here in the DR as in most areas of the world -storm and sanitary.

"Sanitary" sewer obviously isn't as it collects the discharge from toilets and drains of businesses and homes.

"Storm" sewer collects the rainfall runoff (and whatever else is dumped into them) and discharges directly into a receiving water body such as streams, rivers and the oceans. As Dominicans aren't the best about disposing trash in an ordered manner, much of the garbage left on the ground is washed into the storm sewer after a rainfall where it is summarily dumped into said water bodies.

To my knowledge as a civil engineer, these systems aren't interconnected and are therefor completely separate.

AK74 · #26 10-13-2008, 04:57 PM

[QUOTE=jrhartley;685797
I'm not sure about the other places.....you will find a lot of litter and prostitution (they line the roads as you enter the towns) in Bulgaria [/QUOTE]

I cannot speak for the whole Bolgaria, but the place where my relatives happen to have a house - outskirts of Burgas, just at the beginning of Slunchev Briag, not far from Varna and Zlatni Piasci, does not fit this description.

They paid for it 117 000 Euro. And for a studio in a three story building with the sea view - 30 000 Euro. I stayed in this studio two times. Does not fit the description.

If it were a Bolgarian forum I could show many beautiful photos.

jrhartley · #27 10-13-2008, 05:10 PM

did you drive along the whole coast- there are some nice places and some not so nice...there was a very scarey town near the turkish border- the prostitutes tend to hang around the main roads into the towns and in the hotel lobbys - this is off topic and unrelated to dr so will be deleted but I thought id write it anyway

AK74 · #28 10-13-2008, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by jrhartley

did you drive along the whole coast- there are some nice places and some not so nice...there was a very scarey town near the turkish border- the prostitutes tend to hang around the main roads into the towns and in the hotel lobbys - this is off topic and unrelated to dr so will be deleted but I thought id write it anyway

No, I did not. Only been in Slanchev Briag area. A large ex-pat community. Visited Varna several times. Also the historic island near Burgas (forgot its name).That is it. Did not venture into other areas of the country.

Many years ago visited Plovdiv, Shipka, Sofia. A beautiful monument to Soviet soldiers who liberated Bulgaria. Aliosha if my memory serves me well.

dv8 · #29 10-13-2008, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Chip

There are two types of sewage systems here in the DR as in most areas of the world -storm and sanitary.
To my knowledge as a civil engineer, these systems aren't interconnected and are therefor completely separate.

the problem, chip, arises when you see all the houses built along the streams, all those corrugated tin roof shacks. poor folks living there do not have sanitary sewage system, they have no sewage at all, all their waste, including organic matter, goes directly into streams (part of a storm system) and then to the ocean. voila.
besides, the storm system does not seem to function here which is clearly seen after any rain.

ps while arguing with the engineer over our house i had a chance to look inside sewage canal (no manhole yet, middle of the street). the pipe (storm system, i guess) carrying water was so narrow i would not even fit my head inside it. seems a little too small, or is it a norm? in poland one can walk in those canals...

b.batista · #30 10-13-2008, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by sammytheman

I read that the resorts/hotels/motels/bars etc pump their sewage into the sea

in and around Sosua. Is that true?

Not in Sosua but maybe elsewhere, I don't know.