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BACOLOD City – Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) promised that their bulk water supply project will start three months before their deadline.
Under its contract with the Bacolod Bulk Water, Inc. (BBWI), the project was supposed to begin in October, but Board of Directors Chairman Lorendo Dilag vowed to deliver bulk water to consumers by July.
It was one of Baciwa’s ways to address water shortage in the city, Dilag told a forum with local government officials and concessionaires at the MassKara Hall of the Bacolod City Government Center in Barangay Villamonte.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia and the Sangguniang Panlungsod requested Baciwa to shed light on the reported shortage of water in several households and establishments, among other complaints from residents.
While waiting for the bulk water supply project, the water district will drill six additional wells that will augment its 60 existing wells, General Manager Mario Macatangay told the forum on May 26.
A bidding for the digging of the wells was already held on May 24, Macatangay said.
Some of the new wells will be placed at East Homes 6 in Barangay Mansilingan and the Abada-Escay relocation site straddling barangays Vista Alegre and Granada.
Baciwa was still negotiating for three other prospective locations: City Heights Subdivision (Barangay Taculing) and barangays Mandalagan and Villamonte, said Macatangay.
Under their contract, the BBWI — a merger of Mactan Rock Industries, Inc., Tubig Pilipinas Group, Inc. and TGV Builders, Inc. — shall supply Baciwa with bulk water for 25 years.
BBWI chairman and chief operating officer Ryan Yapkianwee told the forum they will start supplying via their Injection Point 1 in Barangay Granada.
The entire project consists of a water treatment plant with an initial capacity of 30,000 cubic meters per day for the two injection points. Injection Point 2 was in Barangay Mansilingan.
On May 24 the BBWI requested from the city council a resolution endorsing the construction of their water treatment plan and intake structure in Granada.
Councilor Caesar Distrito, chairman of the committee on laws, ordinances and good government, in turn asked the City Engineer’s Office and the City Environment and Natural Resources Office to issue a recommendation within 10 days.
Water shortage was frustrating the people, Distrito said.
He hoped the six additional wells Baciwa promised get completed as soon as possible.
Distrito stressed that the bulk water supply project was expected to “ease the burden of our water consumers.”
As for Baciwa’s promise to deliver water by July, “let us keep our eyes focused on this for them to comply with their commitment,” said Distrito./PN
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