On Tuesday morning, at the solemn session of the Governing Council, President Luis Guillermo Solís handed an important bill to the Guanacastean legislators. The bill is set to modify the boundaries of the Lomas de Barbudal Biological Reserve, which will allow to carry out the water supply project for many communities.
The ultimate goal is to end the water and drought problems that have affected this province in recent years.
This bill aims to flood 113 hectares of the reserve for the construction of Río Piedras Reservoir, a dam to generate electricity and the network of conduction and distribution of 300 kilometers of canals.
The Lomas de Barbudal reserve will be offset by the purchase of 531 hectares of a neighboring farm, which has already been approved by the Organization of Tropical Studies (OET), which determined that this new area meets the requirements of the reserve ecosystem.
This is one of the steps for several regions to have water resources with the Paacume project, which will benefit 500 thousand people and more than a thousand agricultural producers.
Paacume’s investment will be $500 million, of which $425 million will be financed by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) and the rest comes from a local counterpart.
Legislator Juan Marín thanked President Solís for the delivery of the project and assures that they will work so that it can be approved and executed soon.