La Paz Mayor Milena Quiroga Romero announced a 7.7 million peso (approximately $385,000 USD) infrastructure investment in the Colonia Valle Dorado neighborhood on April 29, bringing sanitary sewer service to 186 families and launching a two-phase rehabilitation of the local park.
Quiroga made the announcement during a Children’s Day festival in the community, located in the capital city of Baja California Sur. The sewer project will install piping and inspection wells to connect Valle Dorado residents to the municipal sanitary drainage system for the first time.
Sewer Connection Fills Long-Standing Gap
The 186 families in Valle Dorado have lacked a connection to the city’s sewer network, relying instead on other means of wastewater disposal. The new project, developed with support from the Comisión Estatal de Agua (CEA), Baja California Sur’s State Water Commission, will address what officials called a basic services gap affecting public health in the neighborhood.
The work is part of a broader push to expand sewer infrastructure in La Paz. A separate, recently completed project installed 8.4 kilometers of sewer lines and a collector in the neighboring colonias of Jericó and Valle Dorado, benefiting 936 residents at a cost of 10 million pesos (about $500,000 USD).
Park Rehabilitation Planned in Two Phases
Beyond the sewer work, the mayor announced the rehabilitation of Valle Dorado’s public park. The project will proceed in two phases, with the first stage beginning this year. Quiroga said the goal is to start construction promptly and complete a full renovation of the space during the second phase.
“We are dedicating resources for a first phase to fix the Valle Dorado park, and in the second phase we will do the complete job. The point is to start now, and that will happen this year,” Quiroga said, according to the municipal government’s account of the event.
La Paz has also recently invested in a desalination plant in the Punta Alta area, north of the city center, with a capacity of 15 cubic meters per day and a cost of 5.4 million pesos (about $270,000 USD). That project includes a well and a water jug filling station.
The Valle Dorado investments come as La Paz continues to expand basic services to colonias on the city’s periphery that developed without full municipal infrastructure. Originally reported by BCS Noticias.