By Mariluz Florian.
Tamayo-Bahoruco. – The National Institute of Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI) and the Central Sugar Consortium (CAC) carried out a 6-kilometer sediment removal intervention on the Trujillo Drain, starting from the Mena Dike, located in the municipality of Tamayo in the province of Bahoruco and ending in the Cabral Lagoon in the province of Barahona.
The initiative is part of an action plan agreed between both institutions and the Environment and Natural Resources Commission of the Senate of the Republic, with the objective of contributing to the rescue of Laguna de Cabral or Laguna Rincón, affected in recent years by drought levels in the southern region of the country.
The regional director of INDRHI in Barahona, engineer Manuel Pineda, expressed that the institution is satisfied with the support provided by the Central Sugar Consortium (CAC) to INDRHI with heavy equipment and personnel, to jointly contribute to finding solutions for Laguna Cabra, impacted by low rainfall levels and rains in recent years.
Pineda stated that these works will benefit the fishermen of the municipality of Cabral, Peñón, Cristóbal, as well as the agricultural producers of the provinces of Bahoruco, Barahona and Independencia.
For his part, Gilberto Díaz Batista, Superintendent of Water Resources of the Central Sugar Consortium (CAC), indicated that the entity began the cleaning work together with INDRHI in November of 2025 and concluded last Saturday, January 10, 2026.
It is worth remembering that, in October of last year, the Senate Environment Commission made a descent to the Cabral Lagoon, where together with INDRHI, Environment and CAC, they committed to carrying out actions to benefit the rescue of the Cabral Lagoon or Rincón Lagoon.
In September 2025, INDRHI had indicated that the drought level of Laguna Cabral in Barahona is a phenomenon that occurs cyclically and responds to multiple factors, such as the lack of rain and sedimentation, resulting from atmospheric phenomena.
