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Environmental Threats
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Development:  The Placencia Resort
Placencia Resort Site Plan
The Site Plan at left illustrates the 152-room resort proposed by Plexar Capital LLC to be located in the general area of the old Luba Hati resort, just north of Robert's Grove. 

In addition to an overpass OVER the Placencia Road (running along the road for the length of resort).

Placencia Resort Proposes to Raise Section of Placencia Road


2,648,600 cubic feet of fill must be dredged from Lagoon for the construction of 6.7 acres of canals.

The resort will also include:
  • 46 hotel suites
  • 15 beach residences
  • 100 meter (328 foot) pier in the Caribbean
  • Semi-circular boating "canal" opening in the Placencia Lagoon (150 boat slips plus 50 repair slips)
  • 13 spa residences
  • 36 garden residences
  • 16 island residences
  • 26 mangrove residences
  • 150 (one hundred fifty) swimming and plunge pools
  • 65,000 square feet of parking
  • An overpass OVER the Placencia road so that guests and golf carts won't have to cross the road to get from one side of the resort to the other. (Cars would drive OVER the existing road.)
  • Water to be drawn from the Placencia Lagoon and treated by reverse osmosis.  The Placencia water supply will only be used to supplement this main water supply. Rainwater will also be used.

Potential negative impacts from the development identified in the EIA for the proposed resort included loss of mangroves, increased effluent discharge in area waters, use of drinking water resources, increase in the amount of garbage that will need to be treated at the Placencia dump an potential harm to manatees.  Positive impacts identified in the EIA included creation of 50-75 construction jobs, 50 permanent on-site jobs and in excess of US$10 million in net foreign exchange per year at "full scale development."

Construction has not yet started (as of August 2011) even though the EIA anticipated breaking ground in February 2008.
   

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Placencia, Belize
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