Esencia says it will not hook to AAA or AEE; Cabo Rojo denies contact

On September 1, 2026, El Nuevo Día reports, by Génesis Ibarra Vázquez, the RS-9 and RS-459 hearing before Thomas Rivera Schatz. Roberto Ruiz Vargas (Cabo Rojo Land Acquisition, Three Rules, Reuben Brothers) said they never meant to hook AAA or AEE: wells TW-1 and TW-2, DRNA deepening and six monitor wells; if not, seawater osmosis. Ruiz: «nosotros no podemos hacer un proyecto que no tenga agua.» Rivera Schatz: miss a dozen location-consult conditions, including identifying water, and the project does not advance.

Waldemar Quiles Pérez, DRNA: «no sabemos si hay agua allí… hasta que se terminen los estudios.» Edmeé Zeidan, OGPe: no preferential treatment; if conditions are broken, there is no build. Adrián González, PIP: an earlier filing contemplated a public hookup; AEE, last week, 1.253 MGD from Betances. Jorge Morales Wiscovitch: the landfill needs a new cell or expropriation. PIP: 76,000 pounds a day, 40 extra tons. El Nuevo Día prints «más de 1,500 cuerdas»; Vocero/NewsPR, 1,549; older magazines and ENDI, «más de 2,000». They are not averaged.

El Vocero, Elián Flores García: Héctor Quintero, Defiende a Cabo Rojo, was never contacted; of five test wells, one found water. TeleOnce, Abdiel Rivera: reverse osmosis and solar with batteries. The Monday file of 318 pages and 3.77 MGD is not rewritten here. On the 28th, AAA and AEE before the Senate: the water reaches the Capitol. This note invents no next hearing. What remains is a no to AAA and AEE and two acreage figures. A reader who wants this 1st's Senate has the El Nuevo Día URL at the foot. This is not original reporting.

Source: El Nuevo Día. https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/legislatura/notas/desarrolladores-de-esencia-defienden-su-megaproyecto-en-cabo-rojo-ante-preocupaciones-por-agua-y-basura/