23 September 2005
Garbage mounts anew at Bonuan dumpsite
THE perennial garbage disposal problem of Dagupan City, “tamed” for the last two years or so, is once again rearing its ugly head.
The dumpsite in Tondaligan in Bonuan Boquig was temporarily closed Thursday because of the inability of the heavy equipment stationed there to move the growing trash. The place became so muddy as a result of continuous rains two day earlier, according to Reginald Ubando, who heads the waste management division.
Ubando maintained his earlier recommendation to close the dumpsite soon because of ill-effects to the environment. He admitted however that the plan could not be implemented totally due to the absence of an alternative site for garbage disposal.
The city government continues to face a problem of non-acceptance by residents of barangay Awai in San Jacinto where the city had bought several hectares of land to effect a landfill waste disposal system. Other surrounding barangays also protested the idea of hosting a waste dumpsite in that place.
Pending resolution of the issue, the city entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Dagupan water district to instead reforest the area.
But the Awai residents remain doubtful about the real intention of the city. The protesters said the move was just a ploy for the eventual setting up of the waste disposal system in their place.
As a stop-gap measure to arrest the burgeoning garbage problem, Ubando again called on the barangays to seriously take the lead in the disposal of garbage as mandated by law, noting that the volume of trash being collected is getting bigger again like in the past.
If waste segregation in the barangays is religiously followed, he said that very little waste would be left for the garbage collectors to collect and dump at the Bonuan site. He said that only about 10 percent of the total garbage is to be collected actually by his collectors if waste segregation is dutifully implemented in the barangay. (PIA/DOS)
The dumpsite in Tondaligan in Bonuan Boquig was temporarily closed Thursday because of the inability of the heavy equipment stationed there to move the growing trash. The place became so muddy as a result of continuous rains two day earlier, according to Reginald Ubando, who heads the waste management division.
Ubando maintained his earlier recommendation to close the dumpsite soon because of ill-effects to the environment. He admitted however that the plan could not be implemented totally due to the absence of an alternative site for garbage disposal.
The city government continues to face a problem of non-acceptance by residents of barangay Awai in San Jacinto where the city had bought several hectares of land to effect a landfill waste disposal system. Other surrounding barangays also protested the idea of hosting a waste dumpsite in that place.
Pending resolution of the issue, the city entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Dagupan water district to instead reforest the area.
But the Awai residents remain doubtful about the real intention of the city. The protesters said the move was just a ploy for the eventual setting up of the waste disposal system in their place.
As a stop-gap measure to arrest the burgeoning garbage problem, Ubando again called on the barangays to seriously take the lead in the disposal of garbage as mandated by law, noting that the volume of trash being collected is getting bigger again like in the past.
If waste segregation in the barangays is religiously followed, he said that very little waste would be left for the garbage collectors to collect and dump at the Bonuan site. He said that only about 10 percent of the total garbage is to be collected actually by his collectors if waste segregation is dutifully implemented in the barangay. (PIA/DOS)
