INTEC analyzes Lake Enrriquillo situation in a panel
Santo Domingo.- In a meeting held at Instituto Tecnológico de Santo DomingoINTEC, hydrologists and geologists met to analyze the possible causes of the growth of Lake Enrriquillo. The panel “Why does Lake Enriquillo grow? Possible answers to a mystery ”he presented to students, professors and authorities of the institution antecedents and neuralgic aspects of the lake situation.
The panel, organized by the Engineering Department, was headed by Ricardo González, research professor of INTEC and coordinator of a research funded by the National Fund for Technological Innovation and Development (FONDOCyT). Jorge González, professor at the City College of New York, Sócrates Nivar, geologist and environmentalist, Ramón Villamán, from the Department of Soils and Waters of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MIMARENA) and Sandra Clase, from the Department of Hydrology of the Dominican Institute, participated. of Hydraulic resources (INDRHI).
The researchers consider several hypotheses to rule out with data. Among them is that the Yaque del Sur River changed its course and the 75% of its waters go to the lake and not to the Caribbean Sea. One of the hypotheses of the course change is that the sedimentation of the Yaque del Sur riverbed has decreased the conduction capacity of this river.
Another hypothesis establishes that the increase of the level of the waters of the lake is by precipitation, an aspect in which researchers of the City College of New York are concentrated.
The panel's proposals will be used as part of INTEC's research inputs, whose objective is to determine the water balance of the lake, describe the historical behavior of its water level, determine the real causes of the increase, assess the environmental and socioeconomic consequences of the interventions required for its control and recommend those considered most effective.
The study, in which an international team participates, will include analysis of existing information, routes through the study area and its boundaries, assessment and prioritization of sampling sites, systematization of information and the running of mathematical models.