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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Thursday, May 4, 2017
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BACOLOD City – A “garbage crisis” will bug this city if it fails to put up a new sanitary landfill, Councilor Caesar Distrito said.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod has approved a P30-million allocation for the purchase of a lot for the new sanitary landfill.
Distrito said the amount will come from the P213-million Annual Investment Plan of the city government.
The finance committee chairman recently held a public hearing on the funding.
A representative from the Solid Waste Management Board stressed the need to buy a lot for a new sanitary landfill, describing the existing landfill as “very full” and suggesting that it has become an open dump.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia himself is critical of the management of the landfill in Barangay Felisa.
The executive branch will create a committee that will look for a new lot, which will most likely be adjacent to the existing landfill, Distrito said.
Meanwhile, in Negros Oriental, Valencia mayor Edgar Y. Teves offered to host a sanitary landfill that will serve seven local government units.
During a meeting in the house of Dumaguete City mayor Felipe Remollo in Barangay Cantil-e on Wednesday, Teves agreed for the common landfill to be built in a 6- to 8-hectare lot in Barangay Malaunay in hits town.
According to Remollo, the common landfill was part of a desperate move of concerned local governments pressured by law to put up their respectively facilities.
Remollo said his city will buy the lot for the “Dumaguete City Sanitary Landfill” and hire a private contractor that will shoulder the construction and receive the tipping fee from the seven local governments.
Teves said they agreed that Valencia will pay for half of the tipping fee per metric ton of garbage delivered to the sanitary landfill, aside from the “minimum supervision” over the facility.
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau recommended the location, which had only three or four houses in the vicinity.
Teves said he will consult the Valencia residents about the plan.
Mayors and planning officers at meeting agreed to generate 3 to 4 metric tons of garbage each from Zamboanguita, Dauin, Bacong, Valencia, and San Jose.
Sibulan has a daily garbage output of more or less 15 metric tons, while Dumaguete has 70 to 80 metric tons. (With Philippine News Agency/PN)
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