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BY CAROLYN JANE ABELLO
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ILOILO – The provincial government has prohibited the extraction, loading, hauling, and transporting of sand and gravel during bad weather in areas as maybe determined by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office.
A violation of this rule would result to the suspension, revocation or cancellation of the permit issued to the quarry operator.
In a bid to further regulate sand and gravel quarry operations in Iloilo and protect the integrity of provincial roads, Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. issued Executive Order (EO) No. 430-2017 containing new rules and regulations that stakeholders in this sector must comply.
Trucks hauling wet and dripping sand and gravel materials shall not be allowed to pass on provincial roads.
The extraction, loading, hauling and transporting of sand and gravel shall not be allowed during Sundays except when a special permit is secured from the Office of the Governor.
But the governor can only issue such special permit on the ground that there is urgent work or delivery that needs to be done on construction projects and continuous delivery of sand and gravel materials is necessary to complete such projects, or in similar instances where necessity and urgency is of outmost consideration.
Meanwhile, operators of ISAG (industrial sand and gravel) and CSAG (commercial sand and gravel) and other quarry permit holders shall load extracted materials only on hauling vehicles with the corresponding “overloading stickers” issued by the provincial government indicating the maximum volume of materials that may be loaded thereon.
Quarry operators who violate these rules more than three times will not be allowed to renew their permits for at least one year.
EO No. 430-2017 was issued on Dec. 29, 2017. According to Defensor, the extraction, hauling and transportation of sand and gravel and other quarry materials must be regulated, citing the damage the hauling trucks inflict on provincial roads.
He previously formed a task force to check and apprehend overloaded trucks.
The task force acquired two weighing scales to boost its campaign.
Each weighing scale has a capacity of 15 tons and cost P1.6 million, said Provincial Administrator Raul Banias, task force chairman.
The scales were delivered to the provincial capitol on Dec. 20, 2017.
The provincial government activated its anti-overloading task force last week of October to curb road accidents, as well as apprehend overloaded vehicles which destroy provincial roads.
Banias said it was three years ago when the Department of Public Works and Highways procured one weighing scale for the province. It is now unserviceable.
Banias said capitol plans to acquire more weighing scales./PN
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