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CORALations Culebra <coralations@gmail.com>
Re: aerial photos/ impact flamenco
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CORALations Culebra <coralations@gmail.com> Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 1:38 PM
To: Tania Vazquez <tvazquez@drna.pr.gov>
Cc: "Ricardo J. ColónRivera" <ricardojcolon@gmail.com>, Edwin HernandezDelgado
<edwin.hernandezdelgado@gmail.com>, "alfredo.a.montanez@gmail.com" <alfredo.a.montanez@gmail.com>,
"abimarie07@gmail.com" <abimarie07@gmail.com>, culebramarine2@gmail.com, Winnie Marquez
<winniemarquez@gmail.com>, "Hon. Alcalde William I Solis" <ivansolis2013@gmail.com>, Luis Migenis
<lmigenis@gmail.com>, Jane Becker Whitaker <janebeckerwhitaker@gmail.com>, Digna Feliciano <dfeli42@yahoo.com>,
Sylvia Feliciano <svnieves@yahoo.com>
Correction: The aerial photo of the deforestation was taken on the 10th of January, 2019
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:37 AM CORALations Culebra <coralations@gmail.com> wrote:
Follow up letter with aerial photos.
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From: CORALations Culebra <coralations@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 6:27 PM
Subject: Re: impact flamenco
To: Tania Vazquez <tvazquez@drna.pr.gov>
Dear Secretary Vázquez:
CORALations is an awardwinning Caribbean coral reef conservation organization based on the island of Culebra. This letter is to inform you of
aggressive deforestation and earth movement in an environmentally sensitive area of Culebra. We have been unable to obtain a formal complaint
number from the local DRNA Ranger’s office since the deforestation at this project site accelerated with the arrival of a large trackscavator on the
7th of January, 2019. We are hoping you can provide a formal complaint number for the following:
no sign at the project sight indicating name of the project proponent, permit or permit numbers and issuing agencies for deforestation,
earth movement and road construction.
no implementation of erosion control measures at the impacted site.
The receiving waters of impact from resulting erosion is the Flamenco lagoon wetlands, considered an area of particular concern by the DRNA.
To date earth moving exceeds an acre, including roads. Because there is no public signage, our best estimate of location are these coordinates:
18° 19’ 20”. 65°18’ 33”. The possible lot number assessed from the Planning Borard’s GIS website is: 47305101407. Possible name of
project, again assessed from same GIS site: Villas EcoTouristicas Andrades. The project is located approximately 280ft above sea level with
some areas recently cleared having an estimated slope of 35°— 45 °. The areas being deforested had /have diverse dry forest canopy, as can
be documented from googel earth and adjacent forest. These trees are slow growing and critical to soil stabilization and difficult to mitigate. The
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soil type is highly erodible volcanic RSRockland. This adds to the cumulative impacts from works impacting a wider area of this watershed. If
this is the project does correspond to the one found on the Planning Board’s GIS website, we would like to include in our formal complaint that it is
not legal to use fast track categorical exclusions as the basis for environmental permitting for projects on Culebra. The use of Categorical
Exclusions typically issued within 24 hours of initial application, is being abused over the entire island.
After more than two decades of work, our organization today better understands how complex resource conservation can be in this region,
especially where the natural patrimony is also the attraction that supports Culebra’s ecotourism economy.
We are here to support the conservation and restoration of these spectacular coastal zone resources, so please don’t hesitate to ask if you feel
we can help.
We look forward to a response and a formal complaint number.
Sincerely,
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 6:10 PM CORALations Culebra <coralations@gmail.com> wrote:
Mary Ann Lucking
CORALations
PO BOX 750
Culebra, PR 00775
7875566234
email: coralations@gmail.com
www.coralations.org
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Mary Ann Lucking
Director
CORALations
P.O. Box 750
Culebra, PR 00775
www.coralations.org
787.556.6234
email: maryann@coralations.org, coralations@gmail.com
Trabajando con comunidades del Caribe para proteger y restaurar
sus arrecifes de coral.
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Working with Caribbean communities to protect and restore their coral reefs.
Mary Ann Lucking
Director
CORALations
P.O. Box 750
Culebra, PR 00775
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www.coralations.org
787.556.6234
email: maryann@coralations.org, coralations@gmail.com
Trabajando con comunidades del Caribe para proteger y restaurar
sus arrecifes de coral.
<<><<<>>><>>
Working with Caribbean communities to protect and restore their coral reefs.
Mary Ann Lucking
Director
CORALations
P.O. Box 750
Culebra, PR 00775
www.coralations.org
787.556.6234
email: maryann@coralations.org, coralations@gmail.com
Trabajando con comunidades del Caribe para proteger y restaurar
sus arrecifes de coral.
<<><<<>>><>>
Working with Caribbean communities to protect and restore their coral reefs.
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