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~ 25/10/06
The full plenario of the Asamblea Legislativa approved accepting a $127 million loan from Japan Tuesday. The money will be used to replace the aging metropolitan area sewer system and to build a treatment plant.
The Japanese Bank for International Cooperation offered the loan, but Costa Rican lawmakers stalled, and there was fear the offer would be withdrawn. A deadline was set for next Tuesday.
Of all the waste generated in the Central Valley, only about 4 percent receives any type of treatment and all of it ends up in the Gulf of Nicoya via various streams and the Río Grande de Tárcoles.
In addition, many of the underground lines are rusted away or otherwise breached. There has been no extensive work on the Central Valley sewer system since 1981, and since 1991 at least 100 new subdivisions or projects have been added to the network.
In addition the sanitary sewer system is so perforated that extensive exchanges of water take place between it and the storm sewer system, mainly when rains come.
Costa Rica will have to come up with about $400 million to complete the project, but approval of the loan agreement is evidence that the whole project would find favor in the legislature.
There was no obstacle except the assembly calendar.
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