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Along with our regular Newsletters (sign up at the form on the bottom right of this page), we at ERA Jaco Realty like to inform our clients and investors of regular updates on what is happening in Costa Rica Real Estate and Costa Rica in general. Below are a few articles we found interesting or informative:
Costa Rica's Manuel Antonio beaches waving the Blue Flags again
Tico Times
The four beaches at Manuel Antonio National Park have regained their Ecological Blue Flag status, the Environment, Energy and Telecommunications Ministry (MINAET) has announced.
The Costa Rican Water and Sewer Institute (AyA) last month revoked the Blue Flags, which recognize cleanliness and eco-friendliness in the country's beaches, citing the risk of sewage contamination. But the move was predominately a precautionary measure, as AyA officials said at the time that beaches in the park “remained in good condition.”
Health Minister María Luisa Avila gave MINAET an extension through the end of June to implement the plan, after threatening to close down the park because of the poor sanitary conditions.
The Blue Flags were returned to the park's beaches after MINAET proposed a plan to rectify the sanitary conditions at the park itself, according to MINAET Vice Minister Jorge Rodríguez. The ministry will install portable bathrooms for tourists while construction begins on new, permanent bathrooms and a sewage treatment facility for the park.
Something just short of a miracle north of Dominical -
AM Costa Rica
Call it the miracle miles. Or the sight that residents of the central Pacific coast never thought they would see,
But despite a delay of 30 years, more or less, a contractor is paving the Costanera Sur just north of Dominical.
The highway section from Savegre to Dominical is 22.6 kilometers (about 14 miles) and the responsibility of Constructora Solís-Sánchez Carvajal. The contract is for $15.5 million. A similar project is under way between Quepos and Savegre. Consorcio Meco-Santa Fe has that job.
The stretch is about 19 kilometers (about 13 miles) and will cost $16.4 million. Deadlines are by the end of the year if bad weather does not intervene.
As residents point out, even when the highway is finally paved there will not be much difference because heavy trucks have been using the route for years, except during frequent washouts when traffic could be stalled for a day or more.
The Costanera Sur is one of the great scenic drives of Costa Rica. The road parallels the Pacific the whole distance from Dominical to Quepos. But it has been a gravel washboard. With some new and rebuilt bridges and paving, residents hope they have an all-weather road.
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