Council okays MOA for sewage project

THE 18th Davao City Council on Tuesday, May 22, unanimously approved on third and final reading the ordinance authorizing Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio to sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the proposed wastewater project for the Maa Slaughterhouse.

Duterte-Carpio, in behalf of the city government, will enter into an agreement with Help Davao, Department of Science and Technology 11, and Sanifyt to improve the city's wastewater management system.

Based on the draft of the ordinance, Sani-Embankment Project, the name of wastewater management is to be funded by the DOST 11, Dutch government, and private donors with the objective of helping the community through the introduction of low-cost sanitation and flood prevention technology.

According to the MOA, the city will provide an area along Davao River where the technology will be installed.

Help Davao will provide technical and infrastructure support. They will also be responsible in preparing the area for the facility.

Sanifyt and DOST 11 will design and develop the prototype of the project. DOST 11 will be the monitoring institution that will supervise the project implementation output and compliance of the work plan. Sanifyt will serve as a developer of the technology and administer the project plans in accordance with the workplan.

Earlier, DOST 11 assistant regional director Mirasol Domingo said the Sani-Embankment Project will be a bigger version of the Vertical Helophyte Filtration System (VHFS), which will filter water from the Davao City's Slaughterhouse.

VHFS is a technology adapted from Netherlands, where it is used in household. The report said that the DOST allotted P100,000 for the pilot testing VHFS in three food processors within the city. It was Sean Ligvoet, Dutch water engineering and wastewater management expert, who introduced this technology to the DOST, and the government agency is eyeing to first use it in food processing establishments and small businesses. The facility filters filthy water and cleans it so that it can be reused.

“The cleaned water will not be potable anymore. But you can use it for watering the plants and washing the car,” said Domingo.

According to Domingo, from the slaughter area, the wastewater will drain down to the holding area of wastewater. Here, a helophyte system will be installed to the filter the water before it would flow through the canals.

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