Foundation CONPA expresses deep concern regarding the parceling plan and sewage water risk
Foundation CONPA’s work plan includes continuous research, documentation of research, reporting on it, and ultimately stimulating collaboration between the community, departments, and other entities.
According to Aron Bislip, treasurer of foundation CONPA, the parceling plan proposed on May 27, in accordance with the National Ordinance on Spatial Development (Landsverordening ruimtelijke ontwikkeling), allows everyone to inspect the documents for a period of one month. CONPA inspected it a week after its release and, with an open mind, viewed and evaluated the plan, but it turned out that the plan has many risks of which we must be aware.
During CONPA’s investigation, they spoke with the community, departments, and other foundations, and it turns out that not a single person spoken to was informed or involved in the project. We are talking about schools, about neighbors whose homes will be taken away from them, and we are talking about concerned departments. For example, when a street is built or a traffic circle is made, the impact it may have on traffic and traffic safety must be considered. The Police Planning Bureau (Planbureau di Polis) is in charge of this, and the Police Planning Bureau was not informed or involved regarding such a large subdivision plan (verkavelingsplan). That brings a lot of concern with it.
“Obviously we have a housing need, and therefore we need serious solutions, not something that is going to cause more problems, more damage than good.”
According to Aron Bislip, treasurer of foundation CONPA, the major risk of sewage water must also be mentioned. We all know that around Aruba sewage water is illegally dumped. Also, in the explanation (toelichting) of Burumbundo Residence, it is mentioned that for sewage water, we do not know what solution we are going to use; we do not know if we are going to use sewers (riool), septic tanks, or other innovative sustainable solutions (duurzame oplossingen). This is an expression in the plan with phantom owners that is very worrying, because now is the time to define all these points and not when a permit has already been obtained.
According to Aron Bislip, treasurer of foundation CONPA, it now turns out that the gullies (guliden) and the geology of Burumbundo will likely require pumping (chica) sewage water, and it can eventually let it go into the corals. That presents a very big risk of bad odor and sewage water going into the areas of Pos Chiquito and even high mangroves (mangel halto). It is simply very surprising that not a single person and institution was informed.
