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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Tuba warns Baguio: Solve waste leak or be sued
By Jane Cadalig
BAGUIO City's alleged continuing indifference to the Irisan dumpsite leakage, which reportedly adversely affected the health of Tuba residents, prompted town officials to pursue its plan of suing the City Government.
Tuba Councilor Blas Dalus iterated they would continue the filing of a case against Baguio for the health hazards posed by the seepage of the city's dumpsite.
Dalus, Municipal Council committee chair of environment, lands and boundary, said the town has been contemplating to sue Baguio for its inaction to the problem, even if this was already brought to the city government's attention several years back.
He added such a plan should have been pursued long before, if not for concerned agency that advised the city to come up with measures to solve the problem.
"If not for the Environmental Management Bureau of the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) that issued stern warnings for Baguio City to solve this problem, we (already) sued Baguio for the hazardous emission of the Irisan dumpsite, which we have insinuated several years ago due to that dumpsite problem," Dalus said.
The City Government already constructed retaining walls and other structures to minimize the leakage but the alderman expressed dissatisfaction over these remedial measures.
Dalus earlier encouraged the city to fasttrack the establishment of its sanitary landfill to finally solve the pollution caused by the dumpsite seepage.
He said Tuba constituents, particularly residents of barangay Tadiangan, have long been complaining about the Irisan dumpsite leakage, and that its high time for Baguio to consider their plight. More than 500 families in this barangay are suffering from such problem, the alderman further said.
Dalus emphasized the construction of the city sanitary landfill, which is mandated for every local government unit as per Republic Act (RA) 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, would be the answer to this decade old problem.
It may be recalled that Baguio is requesting Tuba for a possible site on where the city could put up its sanitary landfill facility.
(September 1, 2005 issue)
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