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Development:  Laru Beya Marina
Laru Beya Marina
The Belize Department of the Environment approved 13 residential lots and a boat docking facility for 6.335 acres of land on the Placencia Lagoon by approval letter dated 4 October 2006. 

DOE gave PCSD a copy of this letter, but did not include the attachment that would have provided the plan for the lots and the number of slips in the "boat docking facility."

Conditions of DOE's approval include:
  • Use of sediment curtains where canal exits into Lagoon (developer did not comply);
  • All excavated materials used solely for filling (no sale of fill);
  • Sides of the inlet and docking canal to have a slope of 1:3 (vertical:horizontal);
  • Native plants (hopefully mangrove) to be replanted along the edges of the canal to control erosion;
  • Measures must be put into place to prevent stagnation and promote flushing within the boat docking facility; and
  • Sewage waste disposal to be through use of
    cast concrete and steel floated septic tank
    system with adequately designed gray water
    gardens to be planted with vegetation of high
    absorptive capacity and/or transpiration rates.

The primary purpose of the Laru Beya marina is to dock The Moorings charter sailboats.

Peninsula Citizens for Sustainable Development
General Delivery
Placencia, Belize
info@pcsdbelize.org
www.pcsdbelize.org
011-501-610-4718