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Wastewater Seeps Onto Sidewalk and Street in Samara

By Arianna McKinney
05/01/13

On Sunday night, April 28, waste waters started leaking from the building where Banco Nacional is located, running down the sidewalk in front of the hardware store, down the curb and onto the edge of the street.

The following day as businesses opened on Monday, April 29, the local water board administrator, Eduardo Arnaez, inspected the problem and told VON that the wastewater was coming from the bank septic tank and passing on top of the water meter, from which potable water comes. Arnaez assured that the tubes around the water meter are tight so the wastewater should not be filtering into the potable water, but he also cautioned that this danger does exist if anything happens to loosen the waterline system, such as an earthquake. Another issue is that people walk along the sidewalk through the wastewater and then track the contamination into the hardware store on their shoes.

Arnaez said this isn’t the first time that wastewater has leaked out from this location. The owners have already had the septic tank cleaned out, so Arnaez suspected that the drainage for the septic tank might not be working.

When asked if he reported the problem to the Ministry of Health, Arnaez said, “We don’t count on the Ministry of Health because they always say we can’t go, we don’t have a car. We’ve tired of calling them.”

 
   
 

The building where the bank and the hardware store are located is owned by the anonymous association Hotel Rio Tempisque, for which the legal representative is Eugenio Alberto Vargas Quesada, who is currently in the United States. However, his son, Eugenio Vargas Avila, told VON that the waters leaking out are not from the septic tank but rather they are soapy waters. He said they cleaned the septic tank three weeks ago and have determined that the problem is the cenicero, which is a wooden box that traps grease and they have made arrangements for it to be repaired on Tuesday, April 30. 

 

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